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The use of the so called "numeric" type in defining the op:numericXXX operators in the Functions and Opertors spec results in unwanted confusion and complexity of the document. Firstly, it uses an undefined type. Secondly, this results in a special rule that some "system" functions and operators *only* can have overloads with the same number of arguments. The solution is obvious: define the type "numeric" and support it as a builtin type. This is not unprecedented, as we already have such types as xdt:anyAtomicType and xdt:untypedAtomic I propose that there should be an xdt:numeric defined builtin type in Xpath 2.0. This may also unify and make more simple or intuitive the rules for conversion between different numeric types. Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev.
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