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

Hi James,

What about for FHIR JSON?   Would 1.200 in FHIR JSON silently become 
1.2, or do you also perform custom FHIR JSON parsing to retain the 
trailing digits?

David

On 08/04/2015 06:00 AM, James Agnew 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
> <mailto: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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