• To: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@d...>,"David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>
• Subject: RE: Re: datatype non-proliferation and disarmament
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:01:40 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Re: datatype non-proliferation and disarmament

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Robie 
> [mailto:jonathan.robie@d...] 
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:58 PM
> To: David Carlisle
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Re: datatype non-proliferation and disarmament
> 
> 
> At 11:47 PM 5/13/2002 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> >Jonathan,
> >
> >Why is integer not a primitive type in Xpath 2?
> 
> For conformance with XML Schema.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> (Whew, that was easy! I sure hope he doesn't ask the next 
> obvious question....)
> 

I assume the next question is why xs:integer is not a primitive in W3C
XML Schema to which the answer is that it is derived from xs:decimal 

What exactly is your problem with this? 

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