Michael Kay wrote:
>> It is unclear how data binding tools would
>> support the conditional assignment of types. I'm not saying that it
>> couldn't be done but I've yet to seen anyone spell out how to
>> handle it.
>>
>
> Oh dear. If the data binding folks are going to be stakeholders in this, we
> can throw out all hopes of a clean design. They'll mess it up even worse
> than the relational people did.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
I'll have to second that opinion. I haven't seen an implementation of
xml schemas databinding that is flexible enough to deal with changes to
a schemas, without causing a lot of code rewrite.