On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Mark A. Belonga wrote:
> After finding that same bit in the XPath spec, I'm now thinking that
> everything should be stored as a Double. As suggested in the XSLT book by
> Michael Kay, there's always round(), trim(), and ceiling() to be able to
> convert to an Integer if you need one. But internally if we use Double
> everywhere I think we'd be all set with all the comparisons. This means that
> even when we round(), trim(), or ceiling(), we do that conversion and then
> store it as a Double.
>
> As far as the string() representation... I tested some conversions with
> xalan, and they have the following conversion rules:
> string( 1 ) = '1'
> string( 1.0 ) = '1'
> string( 1.1 ) = '1.1'
>
> These seem reasonable to me.
If it seems compliant to the spec, and makes life easier/better, then
I'm all for it.
I personally have not the time to implement such a change, so I'll
leave it in someone else's capable hands.
+1
-bob
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