RE: [xml-dev] XQuery types was Re: [xml-dev] Yet another plea for XUpdate...

Correct.  Now, can someone assert that having XML conform 
to one might make that problem

1. Easier
2. Harder
3. Go away.
4. None of the above.

Will I also have XSD versions for 
each one of the three with some slight overlaps? 
And for each edge system to be integrated, the 
same problem?

Ummm.... SOAP/RPC looks better and better.

len


From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:]

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 14:02, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Urr... that list I posted was in my queue specifically 
> because we have to worry about precisely that.  For any 
> vendor that sells in different market tiers, it becomes 
> necessary to use different backend database system with 
> different price break options.   In our case, we have 
> to support three different backend relational systems, 
> and if XML obligates us to datatype definitions, four.

And you've been unable to convince the backend vendors to conform to a
single type system?

Alas.