Re: [xml-dev] The Goals of XML at 25, and the one thing that XML nowneed

[Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>]

On 20/07/2021 14:06, Arjun Ray wrote:
[...]
> The schema folks drove everything off the rails by introducing the
> notion of "data typing" for attributes. 

Again, from the publishing point of view this is largely irrelevant. The
only real candidate would have been a date format for date= attributes,
and its principal use would be to enforce the yyyy-mm-dd format on those
doing data entry.

Peter

(Actually, if you rename the date attribute to YYYY-MM-DD your error
rate at data entry time will fall to near zero :-)