- From: Ashok Malhotra <ashokma@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:18:17 -0800
- To: "Mark Jablin" <jablin@bridgetech-laramie.com>, <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
Mark: Thanks for your comment. Its a good thought but its too late for Schema 1.0. We will consider it for Schema 1.1. Ashok -----Original Message----- From: Mark Jablin [mailto:jablin@bridgetech-laramie.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:59 AM To: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org Subject: Comment on double data type I think you should reconsider the formatting allowed for the "double" data type. Currently, you specify the following: 1267.43233E12, 12.78e-2 I think that for positive exponents, a + sign should be included, for example, 1267.43E+12. The reason I feel that this should be added is that both C++ and FORTRAN output numbers in scientific notation with either a + or - sign in front of the exponent, and not without. The same formatting is done in Microsoft Excel. In order to write a double in scientific notation that matches your specifications from C++ or FORTRAN, I have to copy the number to a string and remove the plus sign, if it exists. Please take this into consideration. Mark Jablin, P.E. BridgeTech, Inc. 302 South 2nd Street, Suite 201 Laramie, WY 82070 (307) 721-5070 jablin@bridgetech-laramie.com
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