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W. E. Perry wrote: > different environment. For the purposes of the processing > which is performed > with expertise unique to that receiving environment, what had > been a numeric > (of whatever specific type) in the transmitted order document > may well be > instantiated as a boolean value, or as a string for > processing as text in the > presentational output of a hardcopy record of the > transaction, which might be > the only use for a particular element in that processing > environment. Once the Let me get this straight. I have the following document: <foo> <value>45.67</value> </foo> What you are saying is that someone might want to treat "value" directly as something other than a floating point number? I can easily see how this element could be transformed into a boolean (e.g. greater than 30) for display, or into an integer (e.g. through truncation) for some other processing. But surely the original value in the original document is always a real number, right? If not, I'd appreciate a more concrete example. I'm not sure whether I get it. Cheers, Matt
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