RE: RE: [xml-dev] XQuery and DTD/Schema?

> Could you elaborate?  Is the XQuery WG really re-thinking WXSDL named 
> types in favor of a more XDuce/RELAX NG-like pattern-based 
> approach?  

No, it's the other way around. As with most other design activities that I've been involved with, the formal specification is lagging behind the informal specification. The move is from structural typing to named typing, and the informal specs are ahead of the formal ones in making this transition.

Michael Kay
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