- From: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 21:59:51 +0200
- To: <public-linked-json@w3.org>
On Monday, June 03, 2013 6:52 PM, Dave Longley wrote: > On 06/03/2013 07:35 AM, Markus Lanthaler wrote: > > Would you support changing the conversion of JSON numbers to always > > produce xsd:doubles? > > This question was for Gregg and Sandro, but I don't think that I would > support *always* converting JSON numbers to xsd:doubles. I'd like this > use case to be supported: > > Read some data from RDFa that has a datatype of xsd:integer. Convert > the data to JSON-LD w/native number conversion on. Work with the data, > possibly modifying the number. Convert the data to back to RDF (N- > Quads) where the value (object) has an xsd:integer datatype and it > looks like an integer (not a double). > > This use case is currently supported by the spec. But it breaks for large integers and doubles that happen to have no fraction. That was a proposal by Sandro or Pierre-Antoine. I do not feel strongly about this but I think it allows us to simplify the algorithms without losing much functionality. -- Markus Lanthaler @markuslanthaler
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