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• Subject: Re: bohemians, gentry
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:42:04 +1100
• References: <5.1.0.14.0.20021204184957.01638bc0@n...> <200212050103.BAA01648@n...>

Very nice post, David.

Cheers
Rick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>
To: <jonathan.robie@d...>
Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:03 PM
Subject: Re:  bohemians, gentry


> 
> > As far as I can tell, XQuery and XSLT will both allow you to process data 
> > in this way.
> 
> No, they won't as Xquery's bias towards schema typing means that an
> implementation is allowed to just use the typed value and junk the
> original lexical string so if the original was
> <Weight>123.456</Weight>
> you might get away with it but if it's
> <Weight>0<!--I added this leading 0 for a reason-->123.4560</Weight>
> a query processor is allowed to report that as
> <Weight>123.456</Weight>
> and information is lost. It is lost because Xquery views the stated
> typing as more important than the XML markup. It is essentially not an
> XML processing language at all; it is language for querying typed trees.
> 
> David
> 
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