CML element scalar

Type Heirarchy
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}string (by extension) {http://www.xml-cml.org/schema/stmml}scalar

Abstract	false (This can be used in an instance)
Nillable	false (Instance values cannot use xsi:nil)
Target Namespace	http://www.xml-cml.org/schema/stmml
Declared Namespaces	xmlns:sch=http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema xmlns=http://www.xml-cml.org/schema/stmml

<xsd:element name="scalar" id="el.scalar">
    <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation>
            <div class="summary">An element to hold scalar data.</div>
            <div class="description">
                <p>
                    <tt>scalar</tt>
holds scalar data under a single
generic container. The semantics are usually resolved by
linking to a dictionary.
                    <b>scalar</b>
defaults to a scalar string but
has attributes which affect the type.
                </p>
                <p>
                    <tt>scalar</tt>
does not necessarily reflect a physical object (for which
                    <a href="el.object">object</a>
should be used). It may reflect a property of an object
such as temperature, size, etc.
                </p>
                <p>
Note that normal Schema validation tools cannot validate the data type
of
                    <b>scalar</b>
(it is defined as
                    <tt>string</tt>
), but that a temporary schema
can be constructed from the type and used for validation. Also the type
can be contained in a dictionary and software could decide to retrieve this
and use it for validation.
                </p>
            </div>
            <div class="example">
                <pre>
<scalar
dataType="xsd:decimal"
errorValue="1.0"
errorBasis="observedStandardDeviation"
title="body weight"
dictRef="zoo:bodywt"
units="units:g">34.3</scalar>
                </pre>
            </div>
        </xsd:documentation>
    </xsd:annotation>
    <xsd:complexType>
        <xsd:simpleContent>
            <xsd:extension base="xsd:string">
                <xsd:attributeGroup ref="tit_id_conv_dictGroup"/>
                <xsd:attributeGroup ref="dataType"/>
                <xsd:attributeGroup ref="errorValue"/>
                <xsd:attributeGroup ref="errorBasis"/>
                <xsd:attributeGroup ref="min"/>
                <xsd:attributeGroup ref="max"/>
                <xsd:attributeGroup ref="units"/>
            </xsd:extension>
        </xsd:simpleContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

scalar holds scalar data under a single generic container. The semantics are usually resolved by linking to a dictionary. scalar defaults to a scalar string but has attributes which affect the type.

scalar does not necessarily reflect a physical object (for which object should be used). It may reflect a property of an object such as temperature, size, etc.

Note that normal Schema validation tools cannot validate the data type of scalar (it is defined as string), but that a temporary schema can be constructed from the type and used for validation. Also the type can be contained in a dictionary and software could decide to retrieve this and use it for validation.

element {http://www.xml-cml.org/schema/stmml}scalar

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