From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 00:33:29 CDT
> > For instance, if the
> > order information is exchanged using some XML schema involving, say
> >
> > <item id="79234CRX">
> > <name>Buckwheat flour (bulk)</name>
> > <amt>123,456</amt>
> > </item>
>
> then the schema is a screwy one. XML schemas have standard ways to
> represent numbers (whether you mean W3C schemas or RELAX NG ones), and
> commas can never appear (the radix is specified as the period, and
> thousands are not separated).
I wasn't using "schema" necessarily in the sense of W3C Schema or Relax
NG Schema. But to do so would have simplified my point: there *is* a
predetermined representation for numbers (not the one in my example),
and any cultural formatting is done on the local system.
Peter Constable
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