Re: ACTION: Lloyd to ask James and Ewot about the underlying precision retention of xsd:decimal values

I think the question is whether someone using code that's generated from
the schema (as opposed to a reference implementation) is going to be in
trouble because we use the xs:decimal type.

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:00 AM, James Agnew <jamesagnew@gmail.com> wrote:

> On the Java side, parsing and encoding of FHIR primitives into XML is all
> hand rolled, so no xs:decimal. I'm not sure what the concern is, but if
> there are any specific areas of concern I'm always hunting for new unit
> tests...
>
> James
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Paul A. Knapp <pknapp@pknapp.com> wrote:
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>> Are either the Java or C# implementations using standard xml frameworks?
>> Ones which would implement xs:decimal? (I think that is the concern.)
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> At 08:55 PM 2015-08-03, David Booth wrote:
>>
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>
>> Regarding the above action, and last week's discussion of xsd:decimal,
>> Lloyd reports: "Java uses BigDecimal - so full retention of precision. C#
>> uses decimal, which also retains precision."
>>
>> David Booth
>>
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