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G. Ken Holman wrote: > In Canada, valid expressions of currency numbers are $1.47 or > 1,47$ based on where you are. I was under the impression that there was some standard patterns/parsers for this stuff being designed. So: <value xml:type="currency">1.5</value> Gets parsed as if it was specified as: <value xml:type="currency" xml:country="Canada.English">1.5</value> (No offense intended to those in French Canada that want to make it their own country.) > I gather from Michael S-McQ in a presentation in Chicago that > the regular expression for a valid date (taking into account > days of the month and leap years) is 4801 characters long. Probably an interesting effort, what we used to call a "weekend and a case of beer" project. I'm sure that another notation could be found that would reduce this significantly, roll a little grep and JavaScript together or something :-). This discussion is important to me because my application to test protocol conformance needs to [expletive deleted] in an XML description of an "implementation under test" and translate the '1.5' into an IEEE float that will appear on a wire. My app will need at least some guidence on accepting '1,5' and/or '1.5' and/or the Japanese Unicode string that means the same thing. The good news for me is that I really only need to deal with SQL data types. Joel xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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