- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Apr 2002 21:36:30 +0100
- To: "Tianzhi Yang" <tyang@firstrain.com>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Tianzhi Yang" <tyang@firstrain.com> writes:
> Hi,
> Can anybody help?
> 1.
> Suppose there is a list of union. The only member of union is "string".
> .....
> <list>
> <simpleType>
> <union memberTypes="string"/>
> </simpleType>
> </list>
> .....
> No I get the following value:
> abc def
> Now should I look on it as a list consists of one string in which there
> is a space character or a list consists of two strings?
My reading is that lists _always_ break at whitespace, regardless of
their itemType.
> 2.
> What make it more complex is the following case:
> <list>
> <union memberTypes="int">
> <simpleType>
> <list itemType="string"/>
> </simpleType>
> </union>
> </list>
>
> and the value:
> 11 ab 22 33
> No doubt I match 11 against int, ab against string. Now should I regard
> "22" as part of the string started with "ab" or a seperate "int"?
See above, so 'no', that's a 4 item list.
ht
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