- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:34:40 +0100
- To: John Boyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>
- Cc: David Landwehr <david.landwehr@solidapp.com>, "Mark Birbeck" <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>, www-forms@w3.org, www-forms-request@w3.org
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Seems to me you'd be much better off, as I understand what you're
doing, to talk about simple type definitions, not datatypes. I take
it from [1] that an XForm MIP uses a QName to refer to
. . . something. That something appears to be user-definable, in a
(W3C XML Schema)schema. Such things are simple type definitions,
referred to by name (or, if you must, although I think it's going to
cause _much_ more confusion and trouble than it's worth, by naming a
complex type definition with simple content, whose {content type} is
then the referent. In your example [1], what is gained by referring
to my:internationalPrice instead of xs:decimal?).
Talking about simple type definitions will simplify your prose
interface to the XML Schema specs. Note for example that the
(misleadingly named, sorry) Validation Rule: Datatype Valid [2] is a
rule relating a simple type definition (not a datatype) to a string.
ht
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/2006May/0075.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#cvc-datatype-valid
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