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Printed Page 27
5th paragraph: xs:NCName

It is said that xs:NCName is derived from xs:Name, which does not allow names to
start with numbers.

But the last valid example given here in the sentence

"Some valid values for this datatype are Snoopy, CMS, -1950-10-04-10-00, or 1950-10-04.

... surely starts with a number.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 30
in the paragraph of xs:hexBinary

A UTF-8 XML header such as:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
that is encoded as xs:hexBinary would be:

3f3c6d78206c657673726f693d6e3122302e20226e656f636964676e223d54552d4622383e3f

The encoded code should be:

3c3f786d6c2076657273696f6e3d22312e302220656e636f64696e673d225554462d38223f3e

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 30
in the paragraph of xs:base64Binary

The same header encoded as xs:base64Binary would be:
PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4NCg==

The encoded code should be:
PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4=

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 33
In section 4.4.2

These datatypes accept several "special" values: positive zero (0),
negative
zero (-0) (which is greater than positive 0 but less than any negative
value),

I believe this should be:

These datatypes accept several "special" values: positive zero (0),
negative
zero (-0) (which is less than positive 0 but greater than any negative
value),

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 37
2d set of examples (invalid examples)

The third example "(the month part is out of range)" doesn't seem to be entirely
accurate. Although the month part *is* admittedly out of range, the day-of-month is
also included, and this is an "xs:gYearMonth" example: days-of-month aren't permitted
(at least with my schema checker, MSXML 4.0).

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 37
Fourth example (invalid values for gYear)

The second example, "(the month part is out of range)" includes a month; months
couldn't be included in a "gYear" XML datatype (according to my parser, MSXML 4.0).

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 47
Paragraph 4 starting "This facet is constraining the value space."

The second sentence uses the phrase "lexical and values" ... does this mean "their
lexical forms and values"

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 53
sentence prior to the last paragraph

The sentence says "if enumerations include a timezone" ... "this new datatype" ...
"will not validate any time with a timezone." I think it's just a logical bit-flip:
the datatype "will not validate any time *without* a timezone."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 73
2nd para from bottom, in description for /i

The text reads, 'all the "letters" plus "-"'. The hyphen (-) is incorrect. It should
be an underscore (_). The corrected text should read, 'all the "letters" plus "_"'.

verify: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/#NT-NCName

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 148
xpath="@id|@name"

lines from book
xpath="@id|@name"
Selects @id or @name ( valid only in xs:field, since
attributes are forbidden in xs:selector.

the use of the "|", xpath pipe, is not allowed for the
field element under the unique/key or keyref.

The "|" is only avaliable for the selector.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 221
paragraph 2, line 8

..., either directly (schema A includes schema B, which includes schema C)

"schema C" should be "schema A".

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 225
paragraph 4, line 3

These are similar to our very first example in Chapter 1, in which all the
elements ...

"Chapter 1" should be "Chapter 2".

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 229
first code snippet, diagnostic description and also error message

The content of the <sch:assert /> element says:

"An author should die after her or his death."
Should probably say:
"An author should die after her or his birth."

Also, a few lines down, first line of content within the <sch: diagnostic /> tag says:

"Error, this author is born after her or his birth!"
Should read:
"Error, this author is born after her or his death!"

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 318
in the paragraph of xs:hexBinary, Example

A UTF-8 XML header such as:
"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>"
encoded would be:

"3f3c6d78206c657673726f693d6e3122302e20226e656f636964676e223d54552d4622383e3f"

The encoded code should be:

"3c3f786d6c2076657273696f6e3d22312e302220656e636f64696e673d225554462d38223f3e"

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 331
in the title of xs:short

xs:short 32 bit signed integers.

"32 bit" should be "16 bit".

 Anonymous