Re: XSD decimal syntax

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 16:55 +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:41:33 +0000, Andy Seaborne wrote:
> > We seem to be stuck on this one:
> > 
> > == For 1.3 being xsd:decimal:
> > 
> > What gets written is exactly the value in the query itself (because both the
> > query and the datatype use a base 10 representation).
> > 
> > Arbitrary precision and precision of more than xsd:double (xsd:decimal
> > requires a minimum of 18 digits - I think that's 64 bits of precision) are
> > needed for financial information.
> > 
> > It's what XPath uses.
> > 
> > == For 1.3 being a double:
> > 
> > It's what cwm and programming languages do.  Note many programming 
> > languages interpret 1/3 as integer divide (i.e. result integer 1)
> > 
> > It's what SPARQL does at the moment.
> 
> The turtle thing is a big deal, if 1.0 is a decimal, then:
> 	SELECT * WHERE { [] rdf:value 1.0 . }
> does not match
> 	[] rdf:value 1.0 .
> 
> That's a big drawback IMHO.

You don't think turtle would follow SPARQL and migrate to decimal?

> Given that decimals are relatively rare in RDF data in my experience,
> having to write "1.0"^^xsd:decimal or 1.0/1 is not that big a deal, its
> the same with xsd:float.
> 
> - Steve
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