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Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] Candle 0.8 - a new scripting language for XML

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To: Henry Luo <henryluo@vibrasoft.net>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] Candle 0.8 - a new scripting language for XML
From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:16:57 -0400
Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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"XML is only semi-structured with no explicit type information." is a 
feature, not a bug. Removing it makes the data less useful, and the 
format fairly uninteresting. XML would not be where it is today if it 
featured strong data typing.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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