Re: [xml-dev] limits of the generic

Jonathan Robie <> wrote:

| If I take an integer out of a relational database and give it to a Java 
| program, I would often like the Java program to know that it is an integer. 
| Not just for one XML vocabulary, because I want to write tools that can 
| handle more than one XML vocabulary. What's wrong with that?

Nothing.  No need for heroic spams of invention, either.  Have you looked
into notation declarations?