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SV: Comparing lists to singletons

From: Bryan Rasmussen <BRS@itst.dk>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:56:41 +0200
Message-ID: <A2DF252098C9AD4B9781453BE4C5422B0129B292@excw2k301.koncern.local>
To: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>


>For the purpose of XML Schema identity constraints (for example key/keyref),
>is the NMTOKENS value "x" equal to the NMTOKEN value "x"?

>It depends on the definition of "equal" in XML Schema Part 2 section 4.2.1.
>But the definitions there don't shed much light: they discuss union types
>but not list types. It comes down to whether a sequence whose only item is
>the string "x" is the same value (=value-space member) as the string "x",
>and I don't see a statement on that anywhere.

I'd suppose not equal, wouldn't that follow XSD's vision of Typing better?

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen
Received on Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:58:10 GMT

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