Re: BIFs requiring constants = frustrating

Rory,

if you look in the W3C documentation there is no where I can find where
you can put
a currency suýmbol or a number of dec positions into a numeric field, but
maybe
I am wrong

/henrik




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Henrik,

I have no idea what the details of the XML document that Kurt is writing
to
XML are. I was just suggesting an RPG solution to his problem.

most XML readers ignores the number of decimals as long as they are

zero

It sounds like you're saying that most XML readers will return the same
values for the following 3 values:

<value>123.0</value>
<value>123.00</value>
<value>123.000</value>

Is that what you meant? Because that's not the case with any XML parser
I've
used. Or are you talking about something that runs on top of a parser (a
'reader'?) where you tell it to convert the character string into a
number?
If so, then that's possibly true, but it doesn't have anything to do with
this. Since Kurt is trying to *write* a value to XML, he doesn't know
whether the eventual reader will pay attention to the number of decimals -
he's just trying to get the correct value into the XML document. If the
WSDL
or DTD says the value should include e.g. 3 decimal places, then he has to
supply 3 decimal places, even if they're all zero.

As far as whether currency should be passed as an attribute, surely that's
up to the XML document in question?

Rory

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:44 AM, <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Rory,

most XML readers ignores the number of decimals as long as they are
zero and currency should be passed as a attribute, so what is the
problem ?

/henrik