RE: [xml-dev] Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working

["Michael Rys" <mrys@microsoft.com>]

The data model also can be generated from just Infosets. The instances
will be annotated with xdt:untypedAtomic for attribute values and
(currently) xs:anyType (soon xdt:untypedAny or similar) for element
content type.

So if XSD goes down the drain (what does this mean anyway?) XSLT and
XQuery still work on untyped data.

And there is no reason why you cannot add your own built-in type names
and functions that operate on them (as long as your type system is
consistent with the XQuery/XPath type system w.r.t. named subtyping).
Only it will not be part of the W3C specs...

Best regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dpawson@nildram.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 9:41 AM
> To: Michael Rys; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working
> 
> At 00:57 09/05/2003 -0700, Michael Rys wrote:
> 
> >I would also like to point out that the WG takes critique seriously
if it
> >comes in through the proper channels, although at this stage, there
will
> >be a big reluctance to change the language unless there are real bugs
> >(such as the missing static type to denote untyped complex types) or
it
> >can easily be done. However, also note that there are several people
that
> >see XML Schema mentioned in the documents and just shut down. If you
> would
> >look at the documents closely, you would find with some bugs as the
one
> >mentioned above actually works very well on just untyped data.
> 
> The data model ties query and xslt v.tightly into the types of xsd?
> If xsd goes down the drain, it would clearly take xslt with it.
> 
> regards daveP
> 
> 
>