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Re: [xsl] How do I determine that an item is a numeric atomic value?


Subject: Re: [xsl] How do I determine that an item is a numeric atomic value?
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:45:16 +0100

On 03/10/2010 02:02, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
2. Can xs:float really be designed a subtype of xs:double.

no but they could both have been subtypes of a new numeric type sitting between the existing ones and xs:atomic type. The xpath/xquery specs essentially informally use such a type to


http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-numeric

but because it isn't really a type there have to be special XDM type promotion rules.


David



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