Re: [xml-dev] What are the characteristics of a good type system for XML?

From: "John Cowan" <>
> The problem of incommensurable durations (which is longer, 60 sec or 1
min?)
> is much more serious, and I don't see that anything can reliably be done
> about it.  Durations are simply not totally-ordered.

Do you have an example of two durations that can't be ordered by
normalization?

Bob