On Do, 2004-06-17 at 21:37, Steve Quint wrote: > In my post yesterday, I was not referring to null values as in > "<null/>" or "<nil/>", but rather to values such as "<int/>", and > "<boolean/>". Should these values be considered valid?
<int/> is definitely invalid. Keep in mind, that <int/> is equivalent to <int></int>. In other words, this would be a syntactically invalid integer. While one might argue, that this could be a special value, the equivalence definitely fails in the case of a string. Jochen