5/13/2002 3:14:45 PM, "Danny Ayers" <> wrote:
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>Hmm - not sure I like this direction at all. float, double, dateTime - all
>pretty ugly, I'd leave the definition of things like this to separate
>namespaces/schema, and leave them out of these specs altogether. In fact,
>I'd probably drop everything but booleans & integers.
All I really care about here is that there be a conformance level that is not a big
conceptual stretch for XPath 1.0 users and not a burden for implementers.
[FWIW, I'm not persuaded by the "it's just a bunch of 1-line functions,
no big deal for implementers" argument. Each of those has to be put
in a test suite, tested, regression tested regularly, documented, the documentation
translated, the help desk trained upon, the XQUERY FOR DUMMIES readers who
can't understand the subtleties supported, ad infinitum.]
