Brian McBride wrote: > > Is 'decimal' a type? I'm thinking it is a coding scheme for integers (or floats > for that matter. Why do I feel the gentle tugging of an enormous black hole > opening up in front of me here. Time to go read the XSD spec. Strictly, Brian, a black hole can't be said to be `opening up'.... no, leave it alone. > > (C4) are multiple type assignments allowed? (e.g. US dollar, decimal) > > As above, I don't see either of these as a 'type', so I'm not sure this > critereon is well formed. Nor is it a criterion, unless a preference for one or > the other is specified. Seriously, dollars and deicmals are not types but encodings of data of a certain type... surely? The unit chosen maps the integer value into a sequence of numerals in the same way that the choice of radix does. Therefore `decimal' and `pounds' belong in the same syntactic position. The type which selects the semantic domain belongs elsewhere. Radix and unit have the same role as `lang' - they stipulate how the characters are to mapped into a semantic sub-domain which itself has a particular type. -- Martyn Horner <martyn.horner@profium.com> Profium, Les Espaces de Sophia, Immeuble Delta, B.P. 037, F-06901 Sophia-Antipolis, France Tel. +33 (0)4.93.95.31.44 Fax. +33 (0)4.93.95.52.58 Mob. +33 (0)6.21.01.54.56 Internet: http://www.profium.comReceived on Friday, 19 October 2001 09:36:17 EDT
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