- From: Dave Peterson <davep@iit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:45:37 -0500
- To: Daniel Engovatov <dengovatov@bea.com>, Ashok Malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>, Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
At 2:35 PM -0800 050308, Daniel Engovatov wrote: > >Doesn't sound useful enough to force the backward >>incompatability with 1.0. > >Changing the mapping from largest/smallest value to Infinity is a >similar change, is not it? Probably, unless we can justify (for either) that 1.0 is sufficiently unclear as to allow either interpretation. >Oh, well. I guess those who care about large numbers will just find a >way to bypass this schema limitation. Yes. The decimal datatype allows large numbers, and the proposed pDecimal will allow both large numbers and scientific notation. The problem for float and double is only how to interpret lexical representations of numbers outside the range of the max and min numerical values. -- Dave Peterson SGMLWorks! davep@iit.edu
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