- From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:49:32 -0500
- To: wout.de.zeeuw@philips.com
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org, www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org
THnk you for contacting us. On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 05:37:13AM -0500, wout.de.zeeuw@philips.com wrote: > Currently I'm missing the ability of integers in xml documents to be > defined in hex format (e.g. 0x20003cd9). In engineering environments hex > format is much more common and readable than the decimal format. > > But I guess that would mean a change in the xml spec and not in the schema > spec. XML itself already allows hexadecimal for numerical character references, such as ϰ, but does not otherwise know anything about integers. You could consider using schema pattern facets to match 0x[a-zA-Z0-9]+, I sppose. If that is not sufficient, the schema working group may respond to your mail. Best, Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, liam@w3.org, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ Ankh's list of IRC clients: http://www.valinor.sorcery.net/clients/
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