RE: [xml-dev] XPath 1.5? (was RE: [xml-dev] typing and markup)

> Publishing people work with strings, symbols and
> sometimes numbers; where they have a need for
> complex data-types, they may have to work with
> pre-existing dataformats that they don't want
> to have to convert all the time. (In particular,
> for dates.)

And also in particular, which has caused me a lot of heartache, that
continental europe reverses the decimcal point and the thousands comma
(i.e. 1,000.01 is written 1.000,01 in Germany) Just thought I'd mention
it!

Steve