Re: Enforcing values of numbers

martin.me.roberts@bt.com writes:

> Is it possible to enforce that two numbers are within ranges relative to
> each other.
> i.e.  two elements x and y, x must be less the y.

Not in v.1 -- co-constraints are high on our wish list, but we
couldn't manage a complete design in time for v.1.

> I also have a problem where I need to have a list of Telephone number
> segments that can have leading zeros that must be formatted as follows:
> 
> <Range>nnnn-mmmm</Range>

XML Schema does not provide any micro-parsing support, sorry.

> How can I enforce mmmm to be greater then nnnn.
> 
> Lastly, I need to have a list of these telno segments that occur only once
> in a list
> <List>123 456 789</List>
> Would be legal.
> <List>123 456 123</List>
> would not be.

Nor is there any mechanism suitable for this, sorry.

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