Re: [xml] XSD patch and tests

[Charles Bozeman <cbozeman hiwaay net>]

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 11:41, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:20:35PM -0500, Charles Bozeman wrote:
> > Here is a new patch for xmlschematypes.c that implements hexBinary and
>
>   I didn't had time to look at your patch before. I just did that.
>
> > decimal types as strings. I have also included tests (that belong in
> > test/schemas) for boolean, hexBinary, and decimal types.
>
>    for hexBinary I understand but for the decimal, what is the gain ?
> It seems to me that now the information stored about the decimal is a
> textual form and retrieving the value needs to reparse it again. What
> is the purpose of the change to the decimal implementation ? A conformance
> problem, a limitation in the approach (the REC asks for 18 digit of 
> precision and I had those). 
The only real gain is being able to handle decimal values larger than 18
digits. I had noticed that the only time the code needed a decimal value
in binary form was during facet validation so I thought why not keep the
values as strings until the code needs it as a number.
>   I would like to apply your patch but on the other hand I don't understand
> the reason for most of the changes made, and a bit annoyed about not being
> able to get the value for the decimal types, could you provide a bit
> more informations ?
>
> Daniel