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Re: Philosophy of XML datatypes (was: What is an integer?(was:

• From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:36:30 +0100

On 26/03/2023 20:28, Roger L Costello wrote:

<num>44</num>

The value of the <num> element -- 44 -- represents an integer.

How do we know that 44 represents an integer?

Because it has no decimal part, only a whole number.

It is a representation of an integer.

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