Re: [xml-dev] XML Redux

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

Pete Cordell scripsit:

> But is that level of semantics helpful to a computer?  I'm not sure that  
> knowing that something is 32 the number, rather than "32" the string 
> would help me much with all the semantic inferencing I can do as a human. 
>  I would have thought its even less useful to a computer!

Au contraire, it tells you what object to store the value in, at least
in statically typed languages.

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