Re: [xml-dev] XML Redux

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Dave Pawson scripsit:

> do we need xsd:dateTime or would it be redundant?

Redundant, I think.

Richard Salz scripsit:

> I'd rather the type appear before the value, so that ^ isn't reserved as a 
> special character, but more importantly so that parsers can do 
> type-checking and -conversion while they get the value (as opposed to 
> reading the content as text and then converting).

I see the second point, but since there are only a few non-quoted
datatypes, none of which use ^ natively, I don't see the first.  ^
can't be part of a number or date or boolean or null.

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