Biron,Paul V wrote:
The first question that comes to mind is: without some form of schema
processings, how is the type information to be obtained? Without an answer
to that question I don't know how to evaluate the merits of the remainder of
the outline finding....
I think the important thing is to specify the augmented infoset so that
XQuery can use it. Schema validation is one (extremely heavyweight) way
to produce it. One of the lessons of the Web is that once you specify
a representation for something, people will build new surprising and
often useful ways to generate it. -Tim