Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > Once you have that much metadata about "quantity" you can do an awful > lot of things you couldn't do when "quantity" was a textual type > identifer applied to text. You can optimize the representation of that > integer - which is what I've proposed - and you skip an awful lot of > intermediate processing to reach that number. > > If all you really want is the number, why monkey around with text? Portability. It's the number one reason to use XML, made relevant by XML's ability to represent a huge variety of information. -- Ron
|
