• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: What are the characteristics of a good type systemfor XML?
• From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 20:27:32 +0200
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Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> I think the conventional answer is that uses of types outside the
> characteristics that the WXS specs set is application dependent.
> In other words, WXS does not tell you how to compare floats and 
> doubles, but that does not mean it should not be done: it is just that
> the details belong to you (and your implementation's) decisions. 

This is correct. AFAIK it's XPath 1.0/2.0 which specifies how
floats and dates and all that are compared/added/subtracted etc.

J.Pietschmann

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