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Uche Ogbuji wrote: > At 11:35 PM 12/4/2002 +0000, Sean McGrath wrote: > >Q. Is it a good idea to bind the concept of "floating point number" > >tightly into the processing > >of this XML document? Would this not be wonderfully convenient? > > > >A. No, because interpreting it as a floating point number is an > >*interpretation* of the text, not > >a fundamental part of the text. My process will do that interpretation, > >thank you very > >much. > > And nobody is constraining your process from doing that. On the other hand, > some people seem to be arguing that also supporting datatypes causes > problems. Sorry, who are these people? Can you point out anyone here who says that providing modular and optional support for data types automatically causes problems? Hi Uche, There's a misattribution [0]. Sean was doing Q and A [1] and Jonathan [2] was responding to that. Bill de hÓra [0] http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200212/msg00093.html [1] http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200212/msg00067.html [2] http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200212/msg00069.html
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