> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Champion [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:26 AM
> To:
> Subject: [xml-dev] Stupid Question (was RE: [xml-dev] XML
> doesn't deserve its "X".)
>
>
> Why not just put the type information inline and
> make XML more "self-describing" (please don't
> shoot me ...)
> <myData>
> <foo my:type="Int">0xffffffff</foo>
> <bar my:type="String">Someday/bar>
> <baz my:type="Date">20371031</baz>
> </myData>
>
>
By the way you can do this in XML, it's called xsi:type[0] but you still
need a schema to obtain the actual declarations/definitions of the types
in question.
[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#xsi_type
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