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On the weekly call of 11 March 2011, the XML Schema WG voted to resolve the priority-feedback request on precisionDecimal by moving the specification of the precisionDecimal datatype to a separate document, to be published as a Note. Since the removal of references to the datatype will not be a simple purely mechanical operation, the WG will need to review a proposal with the specific changes to be made to the spec. I'm opening this issue to make it easier to track the need for such a change proposal.
A three-part wording proposal intended to resolve this issue is on the server at http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/06/xmlschema-2/datatypes.b12300.html http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/06/xmlschema-1/structures.b12300.html http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/06/pD/precisionDecimal.html (all links member-only)
RESOLVED: accept the part1 and part2 offerings on this bug, with the ammendment to be sure that the sentence in the status of datatypes "A new primitive decimal type has been defined, which retains ..." has been removed.
The changes to the datatypes and structures specs mentioned in comment 1 and approved as mentioned in comment 2 have now been integrated into the status-quo document. The new draft document still needs to be reviewed and approved, so this issue is not yet decided in full.
I was taking a look at http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/06/pD/precisionDecimal.html , and Firefox 4.0.1 seems to think that the encoding is ISO-8859-1, which does indeed mess up the rendering. The page info from the browser acknowledges the existence of: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> but nonetheless it concludes that the encoding is ISO-8859-1, but the following suggests the problem is with .htaccess files on the server: $ curl -I http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/06/pD/precisionDecimal.html HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 18:47:59 GMT Server: Apache/2 WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="W3CACL" Last-Modified: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:45:08 GMT ETag: "613-43a03b54edd00" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1555 Vary: Accept-Encoding P3P: policyref="http://www.w3.org/2001/05/P3P/p3p.xml" Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Thank you. Noah
MSM tells me he's fixed the encoding, and the file looks fine to me now. Thank you.
RESOLVED: if no objections are heard before 2011-05-13, then publish this document (the pD draft) as a WG Note.