Alejandro Bia wrote:
>
>  but I still wonder whether
> data types (provided only by Schemas) could be a plus for text encoders.
> I think that in a fews cases they may come in handy.

Yes, of course. datatypes are a good argumenr for using schemas.
The TEI P5 stuff currently uses datatypes for attrributes in 199 cases
for something other than plain text
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