RE: pattern in schema

[Christopher Ebert]

Title: pattern in schema

 

    Hi James,

 

    Just from experience with regexes, it might need to be "^\d{1,9}\.\d{2}$", specifying the start and end of the string. Otherwise, if it finds the pattern at all, it will match (e.g. 1234567890.12 = 1(234567890.12), which is a match but not what you expected).

 

 

    Chris

 

-----Original Message-----
From: James Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:16 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: pattern in schema

Hi,

I have the following definition in schema:

        <xsd:simpleType name = "amount">
                <xsd:restriction base = "xsd:string">
                        <xsd:pattern value = "\d{1,9}\.\d{2}"/>
                </xsd:restriction>
        </xsd:simpleType>

shouldn't 1234567890.12 be invalid value for this type? but Xerces 1.4.4 does not catch it. Anyone knows why?

thanks in advance,

James