>> I can do datatype checking, without using XML Schemas.

> No, you do string matching on the lexical representation of the
> values.  The difference can be important.

What is the difference?

If my stylesheet checks that the value of an element is an optional "+"
or "-" followed by one or more digits, how is that different from a
schema validator checking that the element has an integer datatype?

/Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Florent Georges [mailto:darkman_spam@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 12:51 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  [XSLT 2.0] Checking that an element's value has the
desired datatype?

"Costello, Roger L." wrote:

  Hi

> Excellent!  With this:

>     matches(flt:Aircraft/flt:Altitude, '[0-9]+')

> I can do datatype checking, without using XML Schemas.

 No, you do string matching on the lexical representation of the
values.  The difference can be important.

  Regards,

--drkm



























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