[topicmapmail] occurrence abuse ? Was: [geolang-comment] Firstproposals for ISO 639 and 3166 available

[Kal Ahmed]

On Thursday 22 August 2002 07:34, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

> I haven't formally raised this issue yet, but I think we will have to
> extend occurrences so that they may be typed. Obvious types include
> booleans, numbers, and dates, while less obvious types are things like
> XML. These things will be needed for various purposes, querying,
> validation, sorting, and presentation among them.

Do we *really* have to go there ? It quickly becomes an awful mess. Can't=
 we=20
just allow XML markup in the content of an occurrence and let those that =
want=20
datatyping use XML Schema datatypes ?

Cheers,

Kal

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