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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> "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.
Why wouldn't it? In a sensibly well-designed XML-with-data-types, the
untyped (textual, PCDATA) values would be just one of the datatypes. So,
any document in XML-as-we-know-it would be a well-formed document in
XML-with-datatypes. Anyone not interested in types is free to ignore
them. (Maybe it is even still possible to define XML-with-datatypes as
an extension of XML 1.0, maintaining backward compatibility?)
VG
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