RE: [EXI] Handling of xsi:type and xsi:nil attributes in Built-in encoding

Hi Santhanakrishnan and Ed,

When schemaID [1] value is set to be empty in header options, the EXI stream
is schema-informed with XML Schema built-in type definitions, but with no
user-defined types.

In such an EXI stream, if xsi:type="xsd:integer" is used
in the context of a built-in element grammar [2], the grammar for
xsd:integer is used for encoding the element content.

Hope it helps,


[1] http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/EXI/docs/format/exi.html#key-schemaIDOption
[2] http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/EXI/docs/format/exi.html#builtinElemGrammars

-taki


-----Original Message-----
From: public-exi-request@w3.org [mailto:public-exi-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ed Day
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:07 AM
To: santhana@huawei.com
Cc: public-exi@w3.org
Subject: Re: [EXI] Handling of xsi:type and xsi:nil attributes in Built-in encoding


Hi Santhanakrishnan,

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:32 AM, santhanakrishnan <santhana@huawei.com> wrote:
> Hi WG
>     When xsi:type and xsi:nil attributes occur in an xml instance how to
> handle them for pure Built-in EXI encoding.
>
> Consider the following case
> <product xsi:type="xsd:integer">123</product>
>
> How the character content 123 will be encoded in the pure built-in EXI
> encoding. As a string or as integer ?

As a string.  There was a proposal at one time to use xsi:type
information as a means of doing typed encoding without a schema, but
it was not implemented.

>
> regards
> Santhanakrishnan

Ed Day
Objective Systems, Inc.
http://www.obj-sys.com

Received on Tuesday, 14 October 2008 23:49:55 UTC