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"Costello, Roger L." wrote: > >> 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? It is not the same thing. By matching the string value, you don't know the actual type of the node. Is it an xs:integer, an xs:decimal, a my:special-int, a my:degree-in-celcius, a my:degree-in-kelvin, or a plain xs:string? Note that the later is very important, as in this case "01" is not the same thing that "1". Actually, I experienced something related yesterday. I'm using Google Spreadsheet to share data with friends. The data of one column is something like the ID of a document. And it looks something like "2/02". One digit, "/" then two digits. But when I first typed "2/02", it displayed something like "Feb., 2 2006". Google Spreadsheet thought "it is the same lexical representation that the one of a date, so *it is* a date". But it wasn't, and I didn't want a date. I did want to keep my string, exactly as I typed it. Regards, --drkm ___________________________________________________________________________ Dicouvrez une nouvelle fagon d'obtenir des riponses ` toutes vos questions ! Demandez ` ceux qui savent sur Yahoo! Questions/Riponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com
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