Re: [xml-dev] [OT] Re: [xml-dev] Lessons learned from the XML experiment

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

On 11/15/13 12:11 PM, David Sheets wrote:
> Can I be caught by the absence of an element not mapping correctly to
> a null value of a optional element? Is there some reason which I'm
> missing to encode the null value in a text node as a special value?
XML doesn't know from null.  That's not its problem.

> Is there something fundamentally wrong with the design of XML that
> prevents this kind of data modeling? Is there a trade-off?
If the absence of null strikes you as "fundamentally wrong", you're in 
the wrong place.

Also note - null isn't an especially XML conversation:

<https://www.google.com/#q=%22null+considered+harmful%22>

Thanks,
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Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/