RE: [EXI LC comments] Boolean

Mohamed,
 
Thank you for your suggestion regarding the order of the bits in the 2-bit unsigned Integer representation used to distinguish between lexical variances of the Boolean type. The current representation allows bit-testing of the first bit to provide the value of the Boolean. It is not clear that changing the representation to allow bit-testing of the second bit rather than the first bit would provide a notable benefit.
 
Both representations seem equally capable, so our current plan is to keep the current representation. Please let us know if we've misunderstood some aspect of your suggestion.
 
    Thank you,
 
    John Schneider
    AgileDelta, Inc.
     <http://www.agiledelta.com> http://www.agiledelta.com
 
 
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In 7.1.2 Boolean



Please consider instead of



[[

Otherwise, when pattern facets are available in the schema datatype,

Boolean datatype representation is able to distinguish values not only

arithmetically (0 or 1) but also between lexical variances ("0", "1",

"false" and "true"), and values typed as Boolean are represented as

n-bit unsigned integer (7.1.9 n-bit Unsigned Integer), where n is two

(2) and the value zero (0), one (1), two (2) and three (3) each

represents value "false", "0", "true" and "1".

]]



having



[[

 the value zero (0), one (1), two (2) and three (3) each represents

value "0", "1", "false", "true".

]]



such as bittesting the last bit could give the right result



Regards,



Mohamed ZERGAOUI

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