Re: Meaning of length pattern in hexBinary and base64Binary from Jeni Tennison on 2003-05-30 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from May 2003)

From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:35:53 +0100
To: "Wiedmann, Jochen" <jochen.wiedmann@softwareag.com>
CC: "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Message-ID: <28662947848.20030530093553@jenitennison.com>

Hi Jochen,

> what is constrained by xs:pattern in a binary type? Is it the number
> of characters in the input string or the number of generated bytes?

In Validation Rule: Length Valid it says:

  "1.2 if {primitive type definition} is hexBinary or base64Binary,
       then the length of the value, as measured in octets of binary
       data, must be equal to {value};"

So it's the number of generated bytes.

Cheers,

Jeni

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