[F&O] INF, -INF and NaN - literals?

• From: Colin Paul Adams <colin@colina.demon.co.uk>
• Date: 14 Jan 2005 08:22:38 +0000
• To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
• Message-ID: <m3mzvca08h.fsf@colina.demon.co.uk>

15.4.2.1 Shows an example:

fn:avg((INF, -INF)) returns NaN.

Are INF, -INF and NaN supposed to be literals of type xs:double, as
is implied by this example (at least, that's the inference I draw)?
Because the grammar for literals does not include them. 
Elsewhwere I can only find mention of them as special string values
for the xs:double constructor.

My XPath parser currently parses these expressions as child::INF
etc. Clearly I have a problem with the interpretation of the grammar.
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire

Received on Friday, 14 January 2005 08:23:10 UTC