Data Types (was: RE: Dates in XML)

Bryan Gilbert (Bryan_Gilbert@pml.com)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:18:45 -0700


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@ursus.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 2:41 PM
> To: xml-dev@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.
>
>