- From: Florent Georges <fgeorges@fgeorges.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:07:37 +0100
- To: Adam Retter <adam@exist-db.org>
- Cc: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>, public-expath@w3.org
On 13 March 2013 18:20, Adam Retter wrote:
> An octet is implicitly in Base 8, so why would I then want to
> manipulate it as thought it were Base 10 (but without
> converting it to Base 10). This just doesnt make sense to me -
> If I understand correctly -
> bin:binary-to-octets(xs:hexBinary("FFFF")) would give me (255, 255)
> The problem is that I now have two Base 8 values in a Base 10
> data type
I don't really understand. An octet is not more base 8 nor
base 10. Neither is an integer. They are abstractions of
numbers, they don't have any base (their lexical representations
have a base though).
Regards,
--
Florent Georges
http://fgeorges.org/
http://h2oconsulting.be/
Received on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:08:28 UTC