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RE: Schema: decimal data type with blank value

• To: "'Chiusano Joseph'" <chiusano_joseph@b...>,"'Baisak, Ranjan'" <ranjan_baisak@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Schema: decimal data type with blank value
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:00:11 -0000
• In-reply-to: <74B14CBC0FEB9D4EB16969F09FA51F4507CC0A@M...>
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Further to my other reply, another approach is to define the type as a
list-valued type with an itemType of xs:decimal and a maxLength of 1. (This
isn't precisely equivalent - this approach allows " " (a single space) as a
value.)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@b...] 
> Sent: 06 December 2004 12:23
> To: Baisak, Ranjan; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Schema: decimal data type with blank value
> 
> One way to solve this is to use the xs:nil attribute - I 
> would recommend
> looking into that.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Joseph Chiusano
> Booz Allen Hamilton
> Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Baisak, Ranjan [mailto:ranjan_baisak@m...] 
> > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 2:06 AM
> > To: xml-dev@l...
> > Subject:  Schema: decimal data type with blank value
> > 
> > Just wondering whether this can be possible.
> > One attricute of my schema is decimal. Initially this 
> > contains blank value so parser throws validation error.
> > I cannot make validation off. 
> > So is there any way to get rid of this error?
> > 
> > 
> > regards,
> > -Ranjan
> > My publication
> > http://www.webservicesolympus.com/articles/HybridModelPartOne.html
> > 
> > 
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