RE: Datatype section

At 10:12 AM 1/12/2001 -0500, Miller, Robert (GXS) wrote:

The section
takes the approach that "if it's in XML, we must want it" whereas what we
are about is "if the ebXML Requirements present a need for a particular
datatype, we must define that data type".  How that datatype is mapped into
XML is an implementation detail (an important one yes, but we need to start
from an implementation independent viewpoint.).

Yes!

I hope it was clear that my comments were about the definition of concepts, not about the data formats.  But, it is correct that even comments about definitions are out of place until we have agreed what data types are needed.