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At 10:17 PM 7/3/2002 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> > - XQuery is semantically wired into the XSD basic type system, with
> > the exception that the Duration type is underspecified so they use
> > a custom restriction of it
>
>Well, the functions and operators are wired into it, and there are
>literals built in for four of the data types (decimal, integer, double,
>and string). The functions are just a library, not really a core part of
>the language. The operators probably could be abstracted away from the
>data types if we really wanted to do so. As it is, most of the Schema
>datatypes (e.g. the gRegorian family) have no intrinsic support in the
>language: one could define a core set of types that is substantially
>smaller than the set of Schema primitive types.
XQuery needs to know about integers, floats, strings, etc. The built-in
types of XML Schema are used not only by XML Schema, but also by many
RELAX-NG applications, RDF, the SQL/XML mappings being defined by the
ANSI/ISO SQLX committee, etc. When these data types are so widely accepted,
it just makes sense to support them.
Jonathan
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