[whatwg] several mail addresses in input type email?

Edmund Lai edmund.lai at gmail.com
Thu Jul 1 11:28:27 PDT 2004


Restriction, list and union of simpleType are all in XML Schema Part
2: Datatypes, in particular read section 2.5.

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:18:52 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Edmund Lai wrote:
> >
> > What I am talking is not about specific built-in type. What really
> > counts is user derived type. Remember the original thread is that we
> > have a email address type and then there is request for multiple email
> > address type. If we adopt XML schema datatype, this is not a problem, we
> > just do a derivation by list. Dervation by union can also be very
> > useful. And you can use devied type in input type instead of repeating
> > the same parameter over and over again in every input element of that
> > type. This can be compared to how stylesheet make our life easier.
> 
> You originally said you were only suggesting we adopt XML Schema Part 2,
> but what you describe above is all from XML Schema Part 1: complex types,
> type declarations, etc.
> 
> XML Schema Part 1 is insanely complicated. I really don't think it is
> appropriate to be exposing the average Web author to that kind of
> language, markup, and requirements.
> 
> 
> 
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