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

no, that's not where the conversation began. It began in schema. I don't
know what would be right in RDF

Grahame


On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Lloyd McKenzie <lloyd@lmckenzie.com> wrote:

> And presumably take the same approach when we generate the RDF - which is
> where the conversation began :)
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>> yes. It appears that for some tool stacks, the code generation schemas
>> might need to use xs:string instead of xs:decimal - but not others. So I
>> think that we should make a note about this in the code generation schemas.
>>
>> Grahame
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>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Lloyd McKenzie <lloyd@lmckenzie.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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>
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>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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