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   RE: [xml-dev] Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing

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At 12:05 PM -0800 2/12/03, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

>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.
>

You haven't been paying attention. I'm another Java person in favor 
of weak typing in XML (or more precisely, localized typing based on 
element name and context, and need)
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