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Dare Obasanjo writes:
> As for what this argument has to do with the XML arguments on
> strong vs. weak typing I'd assumed it was obvious. The people who
> process XML with strongly typed languages (e.g. Java & C# folks)
> are all about strongly typed XML while those who process it with
> weakly typed languages (Perl & Python folks) are for weak typing in
> XML. Or at least that has been the case in the XML-DEV discussions
> I've seen.
I'm a big Java user, but from my work on FlightGear I've come to the
conclusion that units are more important than data types. I don't
care too much if "7" is meant to be handled as a string, a short, an
int, a long, a float, or a double -- I'll do whatever makes sense for
my own program anyway -- but I care quite a bit whether it refers to
feet or meters. In FlightGear, for now, we're simply dealing with
units through naming conventions (i.e. /position/altitude-ft), but
something more robust and machine-readable would be very nice.
All the best,
David
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David Megginson, david@megginson.com, http://www.megginson.com/
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