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Bug 2853 - RQ-28 Allow scientific notation for decimals (scientific-notn)
Summary: RQ-28 Allow scientific notation for decimals (scientific-notn)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XML Schema
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Datatypes: XSD Part 2 (show other bugs)
Version: 1.1 only
Hardware: Other All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
QA Contact: XML Schema comments list
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Keywords: resolved
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Reported: 2006-02-11 01:42 UTC by C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Modified: 2006-02-11 02:30 UTC (History)
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Description C. M. Sperberg-McQueen 2006-02-11 01:42:43 UTC 
This issue was originally reported by Mike Cowlishaw.

Allow scientific notation for decimals.

See
http://www.w3.org/2000/12/xmlschema-crcomments.html#scientific-decimals: CR-23.

Our comment of
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2001JanMar/0298:
March 2001: "There is sentiment in the WG towards allowing some form
of exponential notation for decimals in future, but it would be
explicit in instances (e.g. value=-3E-10'), not implicit in type
definitions."

This item was discussed in the meeting of 2004-04-01
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2004Apr/0003.html).
Phase 1 discussion was closed, because this item will succeed or fail
with RQ-031.

This requirement was met by the inclusion of the precisionDecimal datatype
in XML Schema 1.1.