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RE: XML and LDAP: Common APIs?

• From: rsanford <rsanford@n...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:48:03 -0500

for single values the query engine wouldn't need to
know what the data type was but what about range
queries. for example, how would you search for
records where a date is between 2 march 98 and 4
august 99?

rjsjr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John F. Schlesinger [mailto:johns@s...]
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 11:25 AM
> To: 'KenNorth'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE: XML and LDAP: Common APIs?
> 
> 
> Ken wrote:
> "How do you know whether a query should match a binary '101' or a decimal
> '101' if you don't use data types?"
> 
> I don't think I need to know that to formulate a query. The 
> system that does
> the matching will have to cast both the things being matched and my match
> string to some common form, but that's a different problem. In many cases
> everything is cast to a string - then my "101" matches ether a 
> decimal "101"
> or a binary "101". If I meant a decimal "101" and it matched to a binary
> "101" by mistake, then I was querying the wrong field.
> 
> Yours,
> John F Schlesinger
> SysCore Solutions
> 212 619 5200 x 219
> 917 886 5895 Mobile
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: KenNorth [mailto:KenNorth@e...]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 4:37 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re: XML and LDAP: Common APIs?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Francis wrote:
> > "...Xpath (unlike XML-Schema)doesn't understand basic types like dates"
> >
> > I don't need data types to query.
> 
> Okay, let's say you have a value of '101'.
> 
> How do you know whether a query should match a binary '101' or a decimal
> '101' if you don't use data types?
> 
> 
> 
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