- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Jun 2002 15:38:22 +0100
- To: "Michael Leditschke" <mike@ammd.com.au>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Michael Leditschke" <mike@ammd.com.au> writes:
> If I read the datatypes spec correctly, the
> following definition
>
> <xs:simpleType name="AFewNumbers>
> <xs:restriction base="xs:decimal">
> <xs:enumeration value="1.2"/>
> <xs:enumeration value="5.5"/>
> </xs:restriction>
> </xs:simpleType>
>
> would not prevent lexical representations such
> as +00001.2 and 5.5000000000 appearing in
> instances and being declared valid by the schema.
> Is this correct?
Yes.
> I'm assuming it is because enumerations operate on
> the value space, and 1.2 and 5.5 each have an infinite
> set of equivalent lexical representations.
Correct.
ht
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