• To: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: Re: XQuery and DTD/Schema?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 11:12:07 -0400
• Cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200207070532.g675W0T02045@l...>
• References: <Message from Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...><5.1.0.14.0.20020706143439.02e88e40@n...>

At 11:32 PM 7/6/2002 -0600, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
>Jonathan Robie:
>
> > So far, when I ask how I am supposed to sort my integers correctly, you
> > have told me merely that I could use many layers of software to do this.
>
>Oh, I almost forgot to mention.
>
>Did someone forget <xsl:sort data-type="number"> ?

Sure, people can add a type specifier for the sort to XSL, or add a cast to 
XQuery, to make these things come out correctly - but if they forget, their 
program has a subtle bug.  I don't think the solution to supporting types 
is to ask the programmer to do casts.

Jonathan

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