Re: Numeric Variables in XQuery

At 02:46 PM 7/20/2001 -0700, Elisha Berns wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>I have been attempting to write some XQuery examples and despite having 
>read the better part of the draft of XQuery 1.0 there were not any 
>examples regarding how to handle numeric values of nodes and 
>attributes.  Apparently the default data type for a numeric is integer and 
>similarly for a numeric literal.   I say this simply because the QuiP 
>prototype of an XQuery processor seems to work that way.  However whenever 
>I tried to use a floating point literal in the query, no dice.

Hi Elisha,

The QuiP prototype does not support floating point in the current release. 
XQuery will, but the spec does not yet spell out the details.

Jonathan

Received on Monday, 23 July 2001 15:52:30 UTC