On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:26, Mike Champion wrote:
> Nobody screamed when XPath added such universally understood types
> as string, number, and boolean. Few would object to adding other
> universally understood types such as date, and expanding "number"
> into integer and floating point. People started screaming when
> W3C Schema created date, time, dateTime, duration ... and
> number got expanded into int, long, short, float, double
> and all the rest that Amy Lewis so brilliantly skewered yesterday.
I think it's also worth considering _how_ XPath adds those types. The
types come from XPath processing, not something fundamental about the
XML itself.
Amy's "gHorribleKluge" deserves additional note as a brilliant
skewering, however!
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