- From: Natalie Gordon <nfg@decisionsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:26:27 -0400 (EDT)
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Hi, Looking at the canonical representation of a double in XML Schema 2 Datatypes, it is specified that 'the exponent must be indicated by "E"'. I read that as saying that an E must always be specified for a double, therefore 1.2 would be represented by 1.2E0 (likewise 12 would be represented by 1.2E1). Is that the correct way to read this spec? In the F&O spec Avg (14.4.2) and Sum (14.4.5) both return doubles. But the examples of these seem to return decimals (ie. there is no 'E'). These are used in the XML Query Use Cases and seem to return decimals. So either Avg and Sum should return decimals not doubles or my interpretation of a double is incorrect. Any explanation would be appreciated. Cheers, Natalie -- Natalie Gordon, Software Engineer DecisionSoft Ltd. Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 203192 http://www.decisionsoft.com Pathan Open Source XPath 2: http://software.decisionsoft.com
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