- From: Ashok Malhotra <ashokma@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 05:17:08 -0700
- To: "Michael Kay" <mhk@mhk.me.uk>, <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
The lexical representation of xs:decimal says " decimal has a lexical representation consisting of a finite-length sequence of decimal digits (#x30-#x39) separated by a period as a decimal indicator." So, I think your example is not valid as it has no digits. All the best, Ashok -----Original Message----- From: www-xml-schema-comments-request@w3.org [mailto:www-xml-schema-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Michael Kay Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:38 AM To: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org Subject: Is "." a valid xs:decimal? Section 3.2.3.1 of XML Schema Part 2 says that for xs:decimal, "leading and trailing zeroes are optional". Does this mean that "." is a valid representation of the number zero? MSXML, Xerces, and XSV all reject ".", but they seem to be doing what they thought the spec meant to say, not what it actually says. Michael Kay
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