Re: Potential new issue: PSVI considered harmful

Tim Bray wrote:
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>> 4. Work on XQuery and other things that require a Type-Augmented
>> Infoset must not depend on schema processing, and should not have
>> normative linkages to any schema language specifications.
>
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On further consideration, I probably would back off my statement above;
for example, it seems just fine to refer to the XMl schema basic type
repertoire (or hopefully, a subset of it) by reference.  The problem
that worries me here is where typing information comes from, and the
supposition that types exist only as a side-effect of validation
processing. -Tim

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I agree completely. Sometimes you just need to know what the type of some
piece of XML, or character string, is, not how you arrived at that
conclusion.

Jonathan