In IRC, DanC pointed out: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/tests/#typepromotion-decimal-decimal-pass the core of which is: datatype("1"^^xsd:unsignedByte + "2"^^xsd:unsignedShort) The test tests for whether this is xsd:decimal. http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#op.numeric says: op:operation(xs:integer, xs:integer) ==> xs:integer (except for op:numeric-divide(integer, integer), which returns xs:decimal) op:operation(xs:decimal, xs:decimal) ==> xs:decimal op:operation(xs:float, xs:float) ==> xs:float op:operation(xs:double, xs:double) ==> xs:double and xsd:unsignedByte,xsd:unsignedShort can be used by subtype substitution for xsd:integer and no type promotion is necessary. So I think datatype("1"^^xsd:unsignedByte + "2"^^xsd:unsignedShort) is xsd:integer, not xsd:decimal. AndyReceived on Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:27:37 GMT
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