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> Jonathan Robie:
>
> > A processor is only allowed to canonicalize typed data, and is certainly
> > never required to. In the absence of a datatype, the application could not
> > safely canonicalize, but the datatype says clearly how the data is to be
> > interpreted.
> >
> > And one reason this can be helpful is the kind of interoperability problems
> > illustrated by your example: How many numbers does the following element
> > contain?
> >
> > <Weight>0<!--I added this leading 0 for a reason-->123.4560</Weight>
> >
> > Of course, you could simply say that depends on the application, and the
> > markup should not mandate whether one weight or two is intended...but
> > doesn't that tightly couple your data to the applications used to process it?
>
> Huh? This is such a twisted leap of logic that I really don't know where to
> start in comprehending it. How does the fact that the XML does not directly
> provide answers to how an application interprets the data sufddenly tightly
> couple the data to the XML.
I mean "suddenly tightly couple the data to the application", of course.
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