Re: [xsl] Schema aware XPath 2.0 doubt

[John Snelson <john.snelson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is one of the good reasons to use general comparisons (">" rather 
than "gt"). A general comparison will also succeed in comparing the 
value from a document that hasn't been schema validated. In that case 
the atomic value extracted from the XML document will have a type of 
xs:untypedAtomic, which the general comparison will automatically cast 
to the type of the other value compared - in this case an xs:date.

John

Michael Kay wrote:
> Yes, this would succeed if element x were validated as an element of type
> xs:date.
>
> The reason is that operators like "gt" that expect an atomic value, if given
> a node as an argument, will automatically "atomize" the node. This extracts
> the typed value, which in this case is an atomic value of type xs:date.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/ 
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 09 May 2009 05:38
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [xsl] Schema aware XPath 2.0 doubt
> >
> > Hi all,
> >    Let's say, I have following XML document:
> >
> > <x>2008-12-01</x>
> >
> > And the following XPath 2.0 expression,
> >
> > [1]
> > x gt xs:date('2007-12-01')
> >
> > The evaluation of this expression fails, with non schema 
> > aware XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 system (as x is not of type xs:date. 
> > it's actually an element).
> >
> > But if we had a Schema aware XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 system, and 
> > the above XML document was validated with a Schema (with 
> > element x being assigned a Schema type xs:date), would the 
> > above XPath 2.0 expression succeed in this case (i.e., with a 
> > Schema aware XPath 2.0 system)?
> >
> > The XPath 2.0 specification for operator, op:date-greater-than (ref,
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-date-greater-than)
> > specifies:
> >
> > op:date-greater-than($arg1 as xs:date, $arg2 as xs:date) as xs:boolean
> >
> > which makes me think that, both arguments to the operator 
> > 'gt' must be of type xs:date. So the XPath 2.0 expression [1] 
> > would fail in case of Schema aware system also.
> >
> > Could somebody please clarify this to me.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mukul Gandhi


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