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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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