[sc34wg3] CXTM Issue: Values

[Patrick Durusau]

Lars,

Since there is no legacy CXTM data, I would suggest going with the 
canonical representation of xsd:boolean. But, as you note, CXTM has to 
explicitly make that a requirement.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Lars Heuer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The current CXTM draft <http://www.isotopicmaps.org/cxtm/2008-04-14/>
> is silent about the canonical representation of values.
>
> >From my understanding of the current draft; this may lead into
> different canonical representations of the same topic map.
>
> Example: xsd:boolean has four valid lexical representations: "true",
> "false", "0", "1"; CXTM does not enforce that the canonical
> representation ("true" / "false") of xsd:boolean is used; it would be
> legal to use "0" or "1" in the CXTM output.
>
> Shouldn't it made explicit, that the canonical form of the value
> according to the datatype should be used in the CXTM output?
>
> Best regards,
> Lars
>   

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Patrick Durusau
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