- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Aug 2002 10:52:37 +0100
- To: "Brown, Lee" <Lee.Brown@standardregister.com> (by way of "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@acm.org>)
- Cc: W3C XML Schema Comments list <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
"Brown, Lee" <Lee.Brown@standardregister.com> (by way of "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@acm.org>) writes:
> I have a question about enumerations, if I have the following schema
> definition, can I have an empty string value for the attribute CarType, like
> CarType="" ?
>
> <xsd:schema targetNamespace="http://www.abc.com"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema">
> <xsd:attribute name="CarType">
> <xsd:simpleType>
> <xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN">
> <xsd:enumeration value="Buick" />
> <xsd:enumeration value="Chevy" />
> <xsd:enumeration value="Ford" />
> <xsd:enumeration value="Mercedes" />
> </xsd:restriction>
> </xsd:simpleType>
> </xsd:attribute>
> </xsd:schema>
No -- the enumerations define all the allowed values, and "" is not
among them.
ht
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