Re: Question about datatype

Hi,

Thanks for the answer. I have send the link to this answer out on 
www-forms in the hope it will help the discussion. The explanation did 
help my understanding.

Best regards,
David

Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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> In W3C XML Schema, datatypes are to a certain extent an abstraction --
> the combination of a lexical space, a value space and a mapping
> between them -- that is meant to be usable via a range of concrete
> mechanisms.
>
> W3C XML Schema itself has such a concrete mechanism:  the Simple
> Type Definition component.  This in turn may appear and function in
> three contexts:
>
>  1) As the {type definition} of an Attribute Declaration;
>  2) As the {type definition} of an Element Declaration;
>  3) As the {content type} of a Complex Type Definition (which itself
>     will typically be the {type definition} of an Element
>     Declaration).
>
> The validation semantics of (1) -- (3) are all defined in terms of
> properties of the corresponding datatype.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> ht
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