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Costello, Roger L. a écrit : > Hi Philippe, > > I enjoy reading your posts. You provide lots of excellent information. Thanks Roger > > You have me stumped on this message (below), but I am intrigued. Would > you explain please? An application such as XSLT that consider that the string "32" is in fact the integer 32 because it appears in a mathematical operation "32 + $foo" for example applies some convention to get an integer from a sequence of digits. Another application could apply some other (very silly, I do admit) convention to consider that the character inside "<x> </x>" would be convert to an integer from the unicode code point of that character ; space => 32 ; it's a very stupid convention, as XML doesn't allow characters < 32 (except tab, cr, lf) ; perhaps with XML 1.1 ? The fact that "32" will be understand as an integer or as a string depends just on the application that will process it ; at the XML level, it's text > > /Roger > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philippe Poulard [mailto:philippe.poulard@s...] > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:56 AM > To: Costello, Roger L. > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: [Summary] XML is text-only ... why? > > Costello, Roger L. a écrit : >> Hi Folks, >> >> Thank you very much for your excellent comments! I learned a lot! >> >> I incorporated your comments (or, what I interpreted to be the > essence >> of your comments): >> >> http://www.xfront.com/xml-is-text/ >> >> Please let me know of any inaccuracies or confusing parts. >> >> /Roger >> > > Consider this last document : > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <x> </x> > Does it contain a space inside the x element ? Not at all, it contains > the integer 32 > > I let you write the end of the story :) > -- Cordialement, /// (. .) --------ooO--(_)--Ooo-------- | Philippe Poulard | ----------------------------- http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/ Have the RefleX !
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