- From: Howard Katz <howardk@fatdog.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:34:13 -0700
- To: <andy.seaborne@hp.com>, "'RDF Data Access Working Group'" <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
fwiw I like decimal. Howard > -----Original Message----- > From: public-rdf-dawg-request@w3.org > [mailto:public-rdf-dawg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Seaborne, Andy > Sent: October 7, 2005 7:32 AM > To: RDF Data Access Working Group > Subject: XSD decimal syntax > > > > > > 7. Section 3. Decimal values cannot be written as literals. This > > seems like a needless limitation. Suggest SPARQL use the literal > > definitions in XPath 2.0. > > In XPath 2.0, > > 3.4 is a decimal > 3.4e0 is a double (doubles must have an exponent) > > xsd:decimal is now one of the required supported types in rq23. > > In the RDF world N3/Trutle/cwm and programming languages > would make 3.4 a > double; Sesame makes it a decimal. I'm not sure where tht > leaves expectations. > > We could go either way. Either have decimal syntax support, > and 3.4 is an > xsd:decimal value, or just have integer/double syntax > support, requiring > xsd:decimals to be written in long form. > > Last I found of this in the archive is: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2005AprJun/0262 > > which was a default choice (leave as-is) with Eric being > mildly for decimal. > > Andy >
Received on Friday, 7 October 2005 16:32:44 UTC