Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xmlschema-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Clarification re: token data type and token values [Thread Next] RE: Clarification re: token data type and token valuesTo: "'G. Ken Holman'" <gkholman@----------------.--->, <xmlschema-dev@--.---> Date: 6/15/2009 9:15:00 AM > I'm trying to better understand: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/#token > > It seems to me that the use of the singular "token" is > misleading and contradictory in the first sentence "token > represents tokenized strings". > Yes, the name xs:token was singularly inappropriate for this type (pun intended). The committee that produced XSD 1.0 was very large, and I have a theory that large committees tend to produce really bad naming decisions. My theory is that it happens because (a) all decisions in such a committee are time-consuming, and (b) naming decisions get categorized as unimportant. Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay | ||||||
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