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Part 2 WD error?: inverse of >: < or <=?

From: Daniel Barclay <daniel@fgm.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:13:06 -0400
Message-ID: <44972172.8070206@fgm.com>
To: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org

In the XML Schema 1.1 Part 2 working draft currently at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-2-20060217/datatypes.diff-1.0.html,
section 2.2.3 says:

     In this specification, this less-than order relation is denoted by '<'
     (and its inverse by '>'), the weak order by '≤' (and its inverse by
     '≥'), ...

Is that backwards?  "not ( x > y )" does not imply "x < y"; it implies
"x ≤ y".

In which sense is "inverse" meant?  Is "inverse" the right word?  Should
it be "converse"?  something else?


Daniel Barclay
Received on Monday, 19 June 2006 22:13:23 GMT

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