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Re: Decimal comma/point standard?

From: JohnC <john.coppens@-----.--->
To: NULL
Date: 6/5/2008 9:29:00 PM
On Jun 5, 6:35 pm, Ron Peterson <r...@shell.core.com> wrote:
> On Jun 5, 1:03 pm, JohnC <john.copp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello people,
>
> > I thought I was fairly proficient in websearching, but I haven't found
> > a standard on how to
> > encode numerical values in an XML file in a standard way. XML docs do
> > specify character set encoding, but not a locale. So if I generate a
> > data file, should I use decimal commas or points?
> > Should I encode the locale in the document to ensure correct reading
> > of the values? Is there
> > some standard way to do this?
>
> You want to use <number-grouping-separator> and <decimal-separator>.

Hi Rob, Thanks for the hint. I did a search for both names, and found
_very_ few references.
Is this really a standard, or was this specified by Oracle (the first
references I found
pointed there)? Is there any document on this?

Thanks again.
John


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