David
> It's of interest that Oracle are attempting to head out the gate before
> anything definitive is even on the horizon.
Probably they had advance sight of the "last call" working draft issued on 7th April.
This seems pretty near complete, and seems to cover many of the problems we identified
in earlier drafts. Dates and times ahve now been sorted out properly, and abstract
types have been fully described in a way that makes them look useful. Pity about the
model of "all" not corresponding with the constraints on models in general, etc! This
is likely to be the biggest bugbear. Now what we need to do is to write a set of "test
schemas" for XML/EDI applications and check where the limitations really are.
Martin Bryan
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