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Ken wrote: "How do you know whether a query should match a binary '101' or a decimal '101' if you don't use data types?" I don't think I need to know that to formulate a query. The system that does the matching will have to cast both the things being matched and my match string to some common form, but that's a different problem. In many cases everything is cast to a string - then my "101" matches ether a decimal "101" or a binary "101". If I meant a decimal "101" and it matched to a binary "101" by mistake, then I was querying the wrong field. Yours, John F Schlesinger SysCore Solutions 212 619 5200 x 219 917 886 5895 Mobile -----Original Message----- From: KenNorth [mailto:KenNorth@e...] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 4:37 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: XML and LDAP: Common APIs? > Francis wrote: > "...Xpath (unlike XML-Schema)doesn't understand basic types like dates" > > I don't need data types to query. Okay, let's say you have a value of '101'. How do you know whether a query should match a binary '101' or a decimal '101' if you don't use data types?
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