Re: [xml-dev] [ANNOUNCE] New MicroXML draft available

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

Pete Cordell scripsit:

> <cost xml:type="xsd:float">29.95</cost>
>
> Personally, I think this is the way it should have been done in the
> first place.

If the XML Recommendation had explained that the purpose of attributes
of type NOTATION was to represent the (simple) type of an element, they
could have become the foundation of XML schema languages.  Instead,
they were inserted without explanation of any kind, and rotted into the
useless twisted mutant stubs they are today.

-- 
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      cowan@ccil.org
Be yourself.  Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where
no such knowledge exists.  Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in
the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup,
James Clark is as perennial as the grass.  --DeXiderata, Sean McGrath