Validation Content Constraints
You can apply content constraints to variables in the IS document types, specifications, or service signatures that you want to use as blueprints in data validation. Content constraints describe the data a variable can contain. At validation time, if the variable value does not conform to the content constraints applied to the variable, the validation engine considers the value to be invalid. For more information about validation, see
Performing Data Validation.
When applying content constraints to variables, you can do the following:
Select a content type. A content type specifies the type of data for the variable value, such as string, integer, boolean, or date. A content type corresponds to a simple type definition in a schema.
Set constraining facets. Constraining facets restrict the content type, which in turn, restrict the value of the variable to which the content type is applied. Each content type has a set of constraining facets. For example, you can set a length restriction for a string content type, or a maximum value restriction for an integer content type.
For example, for a String variable named itemQuantity, you might specify a content type that requires the variable value to be an integer. You could then set constraining facets that limit the content of itemQuantity to a value between 1 and 100.
The content types and constraining facets described in this appendix correspond to the built-in data types and constraining facets in XML Schema. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defines the built-in data types and constraining facets in the specification
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes (
http://www.w3c.org/TR/xmlschema-2).
