- From: George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:13:47 +0200
- To: Bryan Rasmussen <brs@itst.dk>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Hi Bryan,
That is an empty string. For instance the XML Schema specification part
2 contains an example that defines a non empty string so it is clear
that the empty string is accepted by xs:string.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
4 Datatype components
4.3 Constraining Facets
4.3.2 minLength
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#rf-minLength
Example
The following is the definition of a ˇuser-derivedˇ datatype which
requires strings to have at least one character (i.e., the empty string
is not in the ˇvalue spaceˇ of this datatype).
<simpleType name='non-empty-string'>
<restriction base='string'>
<minLength value='1'/>
</restriction>
</simpleType>
Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
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Bryan Rasmussen wrote:
>
> I've encountered validators which accept an empty element the content of
> which is specified as being of type xsd:string. This strikes me as being
> wrong, and references to why it would be okay?
>
>
>
Received on Monday, 21 February 2005 12:06:39 UTC