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

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

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