Okay thanks George,

But I'm wondering now, does this mean that there are also empty
nonNegativeIntegers and the like?

Best Regards,
Bryan Rasmussen


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Fra: George Cristian Bina [mailto:george@o...]
Sendt: 21. februar 2005 13:07
Til: Bryan Rasmussen
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Emne: Re: empty elements and xsd:string



Hi Bryan,

That is an empty string. For instance the XML Schema specification part =

2 contains an example that defines a non empty string so it is clear 
that the empty string is accepted by xs:string.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
4 Datatype components
4.3 Constraining Facets
4.3.2 minLength
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#rf-minLength

Example
The following is the definition of a =B7user-derived=B7 datatype which 
requires strings to have at least one character (i.e., the empty string =

is not in the =B7value space=B7 of this datatype).

<simpleType name='non-empty-string'>
   <restriction base='string'>
     <minLength value='1'/>
   </restriction>
</simpleType>

Best Regards,
George
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Bryan Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> I've encountered validators which accept an empty element the content =
of
> which is specified as being of type xsd:string. This strikes me as =
being
> wrong, and references to why it would be okay?
> 
> 
> 

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