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Re: Differance between a TextNode and An AtomicValue

• To: sridhar dongara <dongaraonline@y...>,xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Differance between a TextNode and An AtomicValue
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:24:59 -0400
• In-reply-to: <20030911141505.85040.qmail@w...>

At 10:15 AM 9/11/2003, sridhar dongara wrote:
>Hello I a´m doing my master's thesis on Upadting XML.
>
>I have confusion between a TextNode and an AtomicValue as it is specified 
>in 
><http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/>http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/

A TextNode is a node in a document. An AtomicValue is a value, which is not 
a node in a document.

Consider the following:

         <foo>5</foo>

This contains a TextNode with the character "5". Now consider the following 
expression:

         5 * <foo>5</foo>

This evaluates to the AtomicValue 25, which has a value and a type. An 
AtomicValue is not found in a document, but a Data Model instance can 
contain both nodes and values.

This quote from the XQuery document may be helpful:

>The value of an expression is always a 
><http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#dt-sequence>sequence.[Definition: A sequence 
>is an ordered collection of zero or more 
><http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#dt-item>items.] [Definition: An item is 
>either an <http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#dt-atomic-value>atomic value or a 
><http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#dt-node>node.] [Definition: An atomic value 
>is a value in the value space of an XML Schema atomic type, as defined in 
><http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#XMLSchema>[XML Schema] (that is, a simple 
>type that is not a list type or a union type).] [Definition: A node is an 
>instance of one of the seven node kinds described in 
><http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#datamodel>[XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data 
>Model].] Each node has a unique node identity. Some kinds of nodes have 
>typed values, string values, and names, which can be extracted from the 
>node. The <http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#dt-typed-value>typed value of a 
>node is a sequence of zero or more atomic values. The 
><http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#dt-string-value>string value of a node is a 
>value of type xs:string. The name of a node is a value of type xs:QName.

Hope this is helpful,

Jonathan 

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