Re: Datatypes

[Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI <kohsuke.kawaguchi@eng.sun.com>]

The proposal has some problems with regard to QName.

> given a string, return true or false according to whether the string is
> the representation of a member of the datatype 

I think it has to receive context information as well as a string.

> given two strings, return true or false according to whether they are
> equivalent (ie represent the same value)? 

So does this.


> One possibility is to say
> that two datatypes are the same if all these three things are the same.
> Should datatype parameters be considered as typed for the purposes of
> determining identity? 

I would propose (as an alternative) to prohibit <setParams/> when @key
or @keyref is used. This will make type comparison easy for
implementations.



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Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI                          +1 650 786 0721
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