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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.
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