Re: [xml-dev] Inline data typing

[richard@inf.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)]

>> Looks like you'd have just reinvented xsi:type.

>Right, but for instances rather than schemas.  Or are the specs
>blessing its use in document instances now?

xsi:type always was for instances!  It is usually used when the schema
has a wildcard or to specify a subtype of the type given in the schema.
Naturally you should only use it with types specified as QNames.

(The "i" in "xsi" stands for instance.)

-- Richard