- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Oct 2001 22:13:46 +0100
- To: Xan Gregg <xan@tibco.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Xan Gregg <xan@tibco.com> writes: > Apparently these tests contain the same error my colleague Anli Shundi > raised on this list last week. > > In short, some float max and min facets are out of range, but the test > suite's expected result is that the schema and instance are valid. Our > validator flags the error as does Xerces, according to the test results > page. > > Seems the author of the NIST tests misread the stated float maximum value of > m*2^104 to be m*10^104, since values on the order of 1E104 appear as max > facet values. Sorry, I missed your earlier message -- we'll try to fix that. Have you notified NIST? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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