[Confab-developers] XML Schemas and Confab types

[Jason H. <ja...@cs...>]

After perusing thru XML Schemas for a while yesterday
and today, I think I'm ready to recommend that the Pope
add it to the Index of banned books.

Basically, it suffers the same problem a lot of XML does,
which is that it mixes the easy and the hard together,
making it pretty difficult to understand.

So here's my current opinion on types, which is that
we should just use "well-known" attributes and tags
that have well-known types. So for example, attribute
"dateformat" is always type date, "confidence" is always
type int, and so on.

One way to manage this in the long run is to have a lib
that helps do this for us, instead of sprinkling parsing
and all thru the code.

Thoughts?