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RE: xsi:type handling


xsi type xerces
If you declare an element to be of type MyDerivedFromShortType, then you can
use xsi:type to further restrict it to a subtype of MyDerivedFromShortType,
but you can't relax the restrictions by making it an xs:short.

I wouldn't personally derive a restricted integer value from short, unless
you have some reasons I don't know about. The type you've defined could just
as validly be derived from xs:byte, or xs:unsignedInt, or
xs:nonNegativeInteger. If there are no structural semantics (like
"pass-grade" being derived from "grade") I prefer to derive such types
directly from xs:integer. So long as you're only doing validation it doesn't
really matter, but once you start using typed values in your application it
makes a difference.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yves Langisch [mailto:lists@l...] 
> Sent: 23 May 2005 09:19
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  xsi:type handling
> 
> All,
> 
> I have a derived type from short in my schema such as:
> 
>      <xs:simpleType name="MyDerivedFromShortType">
>          <xs:restriction base="xs:short">
>              <xs:minInclusive value="1"/>
>              <xs:maxInclusive value="100"/>
>          </xs:restriction>
>      </xs:simpleType>
> 
> My question now is, if following line in a instance document is valid?
> 
>         <ns2:MyDerivedFromShort
> xsi:type="xsd:short">99</ns2:MyDerivedFromShort>
> 
> When parsing this with Xerces it will throw
> 
> Validation error: LineNumber: 48 ColumnNumber: 2883 Message: 
> cvc-elt.4.3: Type 'xsd:short' is not validly derived from the type 
> definition, 'MyDerivedFromShortType', of element
> 'ns2:MyDerivedFromShort'.:
> 
> Can someone confirm that Xerces' behaviour is reasonable?
> 
> Thanks
> Yves
> 
> 
> 
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