> The more I think about it, the more I think we should go with the pure > String option, because: > > * it is the shortest form > * it is the most human readable form > * the same approach can be used for all three of occurrences / > cardinality / existence, even though we know it is slightly > overkill for existence. > > In sum: it would be nice to make the persisted form the same as the > in-memory form, but reality doesn't work out that way, because there > are different optimisation needs in each place. And the non-OO nature > of XSD means that you lose that battle from the start, so better to go > with the flow ;-) > I think that you, as the world's first human ADL Parser, have summed this up quite nicely, I agree with you.
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