[xquery-talk] Union types
Srdjan Djuricic
sdjuricic at galdosinc.com
Fri Jan 12 13:00:25 PST 2007
Hello,
I have a question regarding union types and how to deal with them. The
simpleType in question is a union of "time dateTime anyURI decimal date
gYearMonth gYear". When a user performs a query they specify an element
name along with the literal value to do the comparison. Based on the
schema we find out the element's primitive type and do a cast on the
input literal's value. For example
pbs:myProp = xs:dateTime("1999-12-31T12:00:00")
The problem occurs if myProp is a simpleType with an union. I do not
know how to cast the input data. I tried using "instance of" on the
literal value operator but quickly found out that "1999-12-31T12:00:00"
instance of xs:dateTime yields false. If I don't do any casting I get
an exception.
Are there any suggestion as to how to deal with this issue?
Thanks,
Srdjan
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