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On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:40:51AM +0200, bryan wrote: > 2. It's got datatyping; I submit that is only beneficial to [snip] > which I am uncertain of). The best ones seem to be happy saying price > can be a decimal, do users maybe mess up often by entering $1,000.00 > instead of 1000.00 - of course most often they allow you to write > something like: <currencyType>USD</currencyType><price>1000.00</price> > still not what I consider optimal; and how many users are going to be > happy entering in Gregorian Dates? Well you get the point. Data entry is a user interface issue. There are plenty of applications out there that allow you to type in "June 11, 2002", then store it as, e.g., 2002-06-11. I don't think anyone is saying end users should be subject to such rigid constraints, or if they are they should be slapped silly. Reply: And if the user interface is an xml editor into which the user enters the content for their E-Catalog or what have you. To my mind the person using the editor is still a user.
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