- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 02 Feb 2001 12:25:14 +0000
- To: Michael Anderson <michael@research.canon.com.au>
- Cc: "xmlschema-dev@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Michael Anderson <michael@research.canon.com.au> writes:
> Hi all,
> I was wondering if a simple type can be a list of a simple type that has
> a variety of union. The specifications seem inconsistent.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#cos-st-restricts says
> If the variety is list:
> 2.1 The item type definition must have a variety of atomic or union ....
>
> while http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#atomic-vs-list says
> [ Definition:] List datatypes are those having values each of which
> consists of a finite-length sequence of values of an atomic datatype.
The _values_ must be atomic, but that atomicity may be acquired via a
union type, provided the union's members are also atomic, if you see
what I mean.
ht
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