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At 10:50 AM -0400 5/13/02, Mike Champion wrote: >Are we talking about the XPath built-in types or the W3C XSD "primitive" >types? My sense of the 80/20 point for typing is strings, date-time, >integers, floating points ... maybe 1-2 more. The 30 or so >"primitive" types that make controversial distinctions between >short and long integers, dates and times, etc. etc. do not seem like >a sensible starting point for a minimial conformance level. > I wouldn't even go so far as to include integers. XPath 1.0/XSLT 1.0 works prett well with just floating point numbers. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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