Data Type - rational number

Datatype: rationalNumber

Found in http://www.posc.org/schemas/dtypes_u.xsd
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Description:

An element of type rationalNumber will have two subelements and no attributes:

numerator: The numerator of a rational number. The value is an integer.
denominator: The denominator of a rational number. The value is an integer.

Proposed Usage:

This datatype was developed to support the Epicentre rational data type. Its intended usage is shown in the PEF rational element document. It is useful whenever a rational number is to be expressed by giving its numerator and denominator.

XML Schema:

The schema and examples do not explicitly show the lines that set the namespaces.

All schema examples will use xsd: as the namespace for the schema tags and datatypes, and null for all the locally generated namespaces.

XML Examples will exclude namespace modifiers for clarity. Actual XML will probably need namespaces.

<xsd:complexType name="rationalNumber">
  <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element name="numerator" type="xsd:integer"/>
    <xsd:element name="denominator" type="xsd:integer"/>
  </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>

Sample Usage Schema:

   <element name="mapScale" type="rationalNumber"/>

Sample XML:

   <mapScale>
     <numerator>1</numerator>
     <denominator>10000</denominator>
   </mapScale>