The max/min value element
Max/min value elements give you the ability to associate superlative phrases with columns. For example consider this example from geo.cphrase:
<column id="population" type="int" lex="population,populations,..."> <max lex="most people,most population,biggest population,..."/> <min lex="smallest population,lowest population,least populous,..."/> ...This allows the user to ask questions like "the cities with the most people".
The DTD for max
is:
<!ATTLIST max lex CDATA #REQUIRED description CDATA #IMPLIED>
lex is a set of comma separated phrases associated with the value.
The element min
treated in an analogous way as max
.