NEW ISSUE: Using patterns to constrain numerical types

Here's a potential new issue...

* Title:          Using patterns to constrain numerical types
* Description:    see below
* Target:         "Basic"?
* Proposal:       see below

Description: Occasionally people define schema that use patterns to 
constrain the format of numerical types.  For example, specifying a pattern 
of /\d{3}/ so that integers are of the form 000, 001, 002 etc.  Or 
specifying a pattern of /\d+(\.\d+)?e-?\d+/ to ensure that a float number 
has the exponent.  It is generally difficult for binding tools to generate 
numbers that conform to arbitrary patterns such as these, even though it is 
valid XSD.

Proposal:  Recommend against this practice!  Use only the min/max/digits 
facets to constrain numerical types.

Is that appropriate?

Thanks,

Pete.
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Received on Wednesday, 11 January 2006 10:29:04 UTC