Data Types (was: RE: Dates in XML)

[John Tigue]

WebBroker uses the datatypes defined in XML-Data. The dt attribute from
XML-Data namespace is used for datatype recognition by XML-Data aware
processors. Otherwise a NOTATION attribute is used for xml 1.0
processors. This is very limited but did what I needed.

Limitations of this trick include:
Attributes cannot be datatyped. 
Extensibility is not addressed.
Encoding (NOTATION) and data-typing should be explicitly seperate
attributes which they are not in WebBroker.

I would not use the WebBroker tricks as is to solve general purpose
problems besides the "RPC" stuff it was designed for. I was able to get
a lot done using only primitive data typing  without the higher powered
features of schemas. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Gilbert [mailto:Bryan_Gilbert at pml.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 1:19 PM
> To: 'xml-dev at ic.ac.uk'
> Subject: Data Types (was: RE: Dates in XML)
> 
> 
> I posted a note about data types a couple of months ago. Since
> then a W3C submission was made so...  see
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-webbroker-19980511/
> because it includes DTDs for data types that are ready to go.
> Bryan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Peter Murray-Rust [SMTP:peter at ursus.demon.co.uk]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, July 08, 1998 2:41 PM
> > To:	xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
> > Subject:	RE: Dates in XML
> > 
> 	[BG]  .... 
> > I was looking at the XML-Data proposal just today and thinking 'why
> > don't
> > we use the primitives it defines, just as they are, without the rest
> > of
> > XML-data?'. This encourages me to offer the question to a wider
> > audience. I
> > am seriously missing a specification for  primitives - what do other
> > people
> > think about borrowing those from XML-data?
> > 
> > 	P.
> > 
> > 
> 
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