Re: [xml-dev] What are the characteristics of a good type system forXML?

[Arjun Ray <aray@nyct.net>]

"W. E. Perry" <wperry@fiduciary.com> wrote:
| "Thomas B. Passin" wrote:

|> So the value types easily get mixed in with the element types, and 
|> bingo, the type system has become mixed up again with the xml, which 
|> we hoped to avoid.
| 
| Isn't preserving this distinction, while mapping from within the XML 
| instance to an appropriate datatype-based processing external to the 
| instance, the function of NOTATION?

Yes, but that would be NIH, and would fail the criteria of Sufficient
Ingenuity and Obligatory Hightech.