fionbarr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

is there any difference between: $xml_writer->dataElement( "IncidentNumber" => 1 ); and $xml_writer->dataElement( "IncidentNumber" => "1"); ?

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Re: xml_writer dataElement
by choroba (Cardinal) on May 20, 2013 at 16:46 UTC
    No. The number versus string distinction does not exist in XML, everything is a string.
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      thanks...I ask because the XSD file looks like: 
      <sx:element name="Sample0" type = "sx:string"/>

and

<sx:element name="Sample1" type = "sx:unsignedshort"/>

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        That is a different story. Both 1 as a string and 1 as an unsignedshort look the same in the XML, and that's what XML::Writer cares about.
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