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   RE: [xml-dev] bohemians, gentry

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So let's see if I understand this:

Are XML datatypes core technology? No.

Are XML datatypes useful under certain contexts? Certainly.

Can the support and transport of datatype information impose a burden in
contexts where datatypes are not useful? Of course.

Therefore: 
Datatype support should be modular. 

Datatypes should not creep into core Recs. 

In contexts where datatypes are not useful, there should be a mechanism to
toss away or filter out datatype noise.  (I suppose the same could be said
for namespaces, as well, or any other meta-meta-tag info.)

So why is this class warfare and not merely an argument for good software
design?

Politics?  Mmmm... could be.




 

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