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• Subject: Re: XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0 - Assumptions
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 19:25:56 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020513111717.03dcc4e8@n...>(message from Jonathan Robie on Mon, 13 May 2002 11:18:32 -0700)
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>>and
>>positiveInteger -- unless absolutely forced to.
>
>If XML is used as a serialization format for languages that use numerics of 
>fixed size, it is useful to know that you have an instance that will fit in 
>one of these numeric types.

probably most xpath users could check that an integer was positive (or less
that 2^8 or whatever) using existing xpath constructs without the need
to import the entire array of types from schema (and thus a whole mass
of conversion rules).

David

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