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RE: RE: [xml-dev] XQuery and DTD/Schema?

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To: "'Mike Champion'" <mc@xegesis.org>,"'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@simonstl.com>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>,"'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@microsoft.com>
Subject: RE: RE: [xml-dev] XQuery and DTD/Schema?
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:48:02 +0100
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Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>

> Could you elaborate?  Is the XQuery WG really re-thinking WXSDL named 
> types in favor of a more XDuce/RELAX NG-like pattern-based 
> approach?  

No, it's the other way around. As with most other design activities that I've been involved with, the formal specification is lagging behind the informal specification. The move is from structural typing to named typing, and the informal specs are ahead of the formal ones in making this transition.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com

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- Re: RE: [xml-dev] XQuery and DTD/Schema?
  - From: Mike Champion <mc@xegesis.org>

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