Boolean values in schemas

[Julian Hershel]

Hi.

I want to to use the xs:boolean type for one of my elements. But is it
possible to make these boolean values be read as Yes/No instead of
true/false? Should I create a custom type for that?

Thank you.

Julian

[Priya Lakshminarayanan [MSFT]]

According to the XMLSchema datatypes spec, the following are the allowed
values for xs:boolean
3.2.2.1 Lexical representation
An instance of a datatype that is defined as ·boolean· can have the
following legal literals {true, false, 1, 0}.

If you need the values to be Yes/No it has to be a custom type derived from
xs:string with enumerations "Yes" and "No"

-Priya

"Julian Hershel" <jh**************@exds.com> wrote in message
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Hi.

I want to to use the xs:boolean type for one of my elements. But is it
possible to make these boolean values be read as Yes/No instead of
true/false? Should I create a custom type for that?

Thank you.

Julian

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Julian Hershel wrote:

I want to to use the xs:boolean type for one of my elements. But is it
possible to make these boolean values be read as Yes/No instead of
true/false?
Nope, xs:boolean is "true/false" or "1/0".

Should I create a custom type for that?

Yes, use xsl:enumeration to provide allowable values.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, XmlInsider]
http://blog.tkachenko.com