RE: heading toward datatyping telecon

At 12:27 PM 11/6/01 +0200, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote:
>Yes. The result of the query is in essence loosing the information
>needed to properly interpret the actual value. An application that
>does not know that it was defined according to a data type that
>requires hexidecimal notation, will likely interpret it (on inspection)
>as a decimal value, and thus the integrity of the knowledge is
>compromised.

Seems to me that the problem here is that "on inspection" is not a licensed 
inference method.  So the problem you describe is a bug in the query 
client's handling of the response.

(I don't dispute that having ways to get the appropriate datatype class 
information back as part of a query response containing literals is a good 
thing, but I see that as another story.)

#g


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Received on Tuesday, 6 November 2001 09:26:10 UTC