• To: dbox@m... (Don Box)
• Subject: Re: DTDs, W3C Schemas, RELAX NG, Schematron?
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:40:29 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: dbox@m... (Don Box), jcowan@r... (John Cowan), clbullar@i... ("Bullard, Claude L (Len)"), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <CFC4F26947496E4092489B24256149580501E25F@s...> from "Don Box" at Jun 23, 2002 08:54:30 PM

Don Box scripsit:

> > Wow! I was knocked out by this one. What good are datatypes if one can
> > work in terms of the value space of the type rather than the lexical
> > form?
> 
> In case it wasn't obvious, that sentence should have read "What good are
> datatypes if one CANNOT work in terms of the value space..."

Oh, one definitely can.  To express "nonzero integer" properly,
the Right Thing is:

	xsd:integer - (xsd:integer "0")

Just because I can't always think of the R.T. on the fly, doesn't
mean it doesn't exist!


-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

• References:
  • RE: DTDs, W3C Schemas, RELAX NG, Schematron?
    • From: "Don Box" <dbox@m...>

• Prev by Date: Re: schema management for a document pipeline: requestfor comment
• Next by Date: RE: DTDs, W3C Schemas, RELAX NG, Schematron?
• Previous by thread: Re: DTDs, W3C Schemas, RELAX NG, Schematron?
• Next by thread: RE: DTDs, W3C Schemas, RELAX NG, Schematron?
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread