- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:03:03 -0400
- To: "Pranav Kandula" <kpranav@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
In general, the lexical space tells you the actual character strings that can be present in an XML document (or other context) to represent a value; the value space tells you the set of abstract values that comprise a given type. For many types, such as the numeric types, the differences are clear, but there is no reason why a particular type cannot have a straight 1-to-1 correspondence between characters in a lexical space, and a value space that happens to consist of the same character sequences. Obviously, if all types were this way, the architectural distinction wouldn't likely be made. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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