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Re: XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0 - Assumptions


Re:  XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0 - Assumptions
At 02:33 PM 5/13/2002 -0400, Mike Champion wrote:
>5/13/2002 2:18:32 PM, Jonathan Robie 
><jonathan.robie@d...> wrote:
>
>
> >If XML is used as a serialization format for languages that use numerics of
> >fixed size, it is useful to know that you have an instance that will fit in
> >one of these numeric types.
>
>I'm not asserting that there is no rational reason for the distinctions made
>by the designers of the XSD types, I'm simply asserting that many are 
>irrelevant
>to the needs of the vast majority of XQuery users.  The distinction
>between int, long, and short, for example, made perfect sense in a world where
>8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit machines were all commonplace.  It is now rather
>quaint for most of us, and will be a bizarre anachronism in 10 years or so
>(when I assume that even cellphones will use 64-bit processors).

Yes, this is a valid point.

>Keep it in XQuery if you insist, but please don't perpetuate the distinction
>in a conformance level of XQuery that attempts to find the 80/20 point.
>And if that's not the question on the table, sorry.

XQuery implementations will not need the more limited types. There may well 
be a place for them in XML Schema. Once someone can use them in a schema, 
XQuery has to support them.

Jonathan


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