- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 15:58:33 +0200
- To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Ashok Malhotra wrote:
>
> To write the schema, you would first create a simple type that restricts
> "string" with a pattern corresponding to the format discussed above.
The drawback if you do so is that all the semantic of a date type will
be lost.
This means for instance that you won't be able to constrain you type by
adding facets that work on datetypes.
In this specific case (CCYYMMDD) where the lexical space of your
datatypes is a subset of a the lexical space for xs:decimal, applying
the pattern on a decimal datatype such as xs:nonNegativeInteger instead
of applying it on xs:string would allow you to keep some of these facets
(minInclusive, minExclusive, maxInclusive and maxExclusive) and to
consider the datatype as ordered (might be useful for XPath 2.0).
Hope this helps.
Eric
>
> All the best, Ashok
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