Part 2: Precision/scale

Dear XML Schema WG,

The current design of precision/scale excludes a serious
part of the solution space by restricting 'scale' to be
nonNegativeInteger. It would be easy to change this to
Integer; a negative value of x would mean that the lowest
-x values before the decimal point are zero. This makes
the value space more uniform and allows to address a large
range of applications, in particular in the financial
market area, where storing/transmitting data in thousands/
millions/billions is very frequent.


Regards,    Martin.

Received on Monday, 29 May 2000 06:09:53 UTC