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

[Anthony B. Coates]

** Reply to message from Kal Ahmed <kal@techquila.com> on Thu, 22 Aug 2002
10:39:18 +0000

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

No, if you ever want topic maps to be accepted for enterprise applications.  If
you insist that the only way to store a (typed) integer in an occurrence is to
wrap it in some XML, you won't win any friends among anyone who has ever used a
relational database.

	Cheers,
		Tony.
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