Re: Floating point proposal from left field... [long]

This appears to be the most relevant existing subject for a problem which I'm 
having.

I'm trying to represent MPEG-7 descriptors using XML Schema. In particular: 
"xpeak is a floating point number from range [0-1.0] represented by 16 bits 
(uniform quantisation)..."

I'd like to do the following:

<simpleType name="16_bit_float_0-1" base="float">
    <minInclusive value='0'/>
    <maxInclusive value='1.0'/>
    <length value='16'/>
</simpleType>

But the primitive datatype float doesn't have a length facet. Is there an 
alternative way to represent a 16 bit float?

regards,
Jane Hunter
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Received on Monday, 21 February 2000 19:12:11 UTC