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• To: "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@l...>
• Subject: Re: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:21:24 -0400
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At 1:14 PM -0400 4/12/04, Stephen D. Williams wrote:

>If an application needs to exchange many IEEE floats, then that is 
>an application-level agreement, not something that I am considering 
>in my main meant-for-standardization design.

IEEE floats are a classic case where many binary proposals take a 90 
degree turn  from real XML. Although you could encode IEEE floats in 
real XML, I've yet to see anybody do this in practice. What I do see 
are base-10 decimal numbers, and the round-off errors when converting 
these to base-2 IEEE floats are significant.

-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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