Mike Champion wrote:
> 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>
>
That's very similar to what I have been trying to promote in vain for a
while ;=) ...
> or else just give it up and use
> ASN.1 for both the out-of-band
> label and type information ?
>
> I'm sure this is a religious war I missed, somehow ...
Since you mention "religious war" and "out-of-band", there is an out of
band mechanism for XML 1.0 that's called... PIs and would be perfect for
this usage!
And what is you type information is it's not a *Processing Instruction* ?
It's the only way I can think of which wouldn't break existing
applications and could let us qualify the attributes as well.
Eric
> and like I said, it's a stupid question, please be
> merciful.
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