Re: [xml-dev] bohemians, gentry

["W. E. Perry" <wperry@fiduciary.com>]

Jonathan Robie wrote:

> I agree that processing may impose semantics on data that was not envisioned by
> the creator of the data, but you seem to
> be saying more - that providing data types in XML data interferes with unforeseen
> reuse.

Well of course it interferes--specifically, it tightly constrains reuse--unless
that reuse is itself predicated on throwing aside the datatypes provided, and isn't
that petitio principii?

Respectfully,

Walter Perry