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RE: Representation of floating point values.

From: Daniel Engovatov <dengovatov@bea.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:35:09 -0800
Message-ID: <32D5845A745BFB429CBDBADA57CD41AF09FF7B3F@ussjex01.amer.bea.com>
To: "Dave Peterson" <davep@iit.edu>, "Ashok Malhotra" <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>, "Michael Kay" <mhk@mhk.me.uk>, <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>


>Doesn't sound useful enough to force the backward
>incompatability with 1.0.

Changing the mapping from largest/smallest value to Infinity is a
similar change, is not it?

>This is much like the situation with comparing dateTime values, one
with
>a timezone and one without.  

Not sure it is a similar situation.  There is no silent mapping and no
loss of information in this case.  

Oh, well.  I guess those who care about large numbers will just find a
way to bypass this schema limitation.

Daniel;
Received on Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:35:28 GMT

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