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>In the case of a date or float, I would argue that they are both compound >types and should be represented as such. The popular human representations of dates and floats are compound, but the intrinsic values are not. They are both points in a one-dimensional space, the first being discrete and the second pseudo-continuous. It is possible to choose representations of float and date that require no parsing to extract, process, or render (localize) the value. I think there is some merit in choosing a canonical XML representation of dates and floats that is meaningful to a good proportion of people on the planet, but it is more important that it is canonical. In practice I would always recommend ISO 8601 representation for dates. This is better than using a Julian day number because it is more meaningful to humans. The parsing of this is so trivial that using XML tagging would not add value, either for the human reader or the machine recipient. Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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