- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:22:52 +0700
- To: "XML Schema Comments" <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
Is +0 allowed as a nonPositiveInteger? At the moment there's a
contradiction. 3.3.14.1 says "nonPositiveInteger has a lexical
representation consisting of a negative sign ("-") followed by a
finite-length sequence of decimal digits (#x30-#x39). If the sequence of
digits consists of all zeros then the sign is optional." This doesn't allow
+0. On the other hand 0 is in the value space of nonPositiveInteger and +0
is a legal representation of ) in the lexical space of integer.
Either
(a) the prose in 3.3.14.1 needs fixing, or
(b) the schema for schema needs to add a pattern facet to the definition of
nonPositiveInteger that excludes +0
If you do (b), then you will probably want to fix nonNegativeInteger to
disallow "-0". However, at the moment there's no contradiction since the
prose for nonNegativeInteger allows "an optional sign" not just an optional
positive sign.
James
Received on Wednesday, 24 April 2002 06:22:57 UTC