Re: Equality of simple values - Where is my mistake?

Your are right. I made a mistake.

Yet, I am not happy with the current definition of equality based on the
special role of built-in primitive types. Maybe you can at least clarify this
point in XML Schema 1.1 with a few examples.

--Stefan



> Stefan Wachter <Stefan.Wachter@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > ht writes:
> > 
> > > But that would have the bad effect of treating e.g. (string)5 as equal
> > > to (decimal)5.0, which is certainly wrong no matter how you look at
> > > it.
> > 
> > I assumed that for values to be equal they must have either the same
> type or
> > the type of one value must be a base type of the type of the other
> value.
> > Therefore, clearly
> > 
> > (string)5 != (decimal)5.0 
> > 
> > but
> > 
> > (anySimpleType)5 = (string)5 = (byte)5 = (decimal)5.000 = ...
> 
> You appear to contradict yourself -- (string)5 is and is not equal to
> (decimal)5.000
> 
> Also note that on your account, (name)a != NMTOKEN(a), because neither
> is derived from the other.
> 
> ht
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