The XPath Grammar points unequivocally at a dot.

Thanks for your help and comments.

Mike

"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@y...> wrote in message 
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>> I assume I will find somewhere in the xml spec that the decimal separator
>> is '.'.  I shall go and look.
> I doubt you will find such a thing in the XML spec.
> That spec tells you "how to pack things" and does not care how you
> represent the "things" you pack :-)
>
>
>> The confusion for me, I suppose, is rooted in the intention of the
>> designers
>> of xml that it should be human readable.  For me a file prepared in 
>> notepad
>> is built by a presentation oriented tool.  However, I can see that the
>> essance of xml is data interchange and therefore consistent formatting
>> should outweigh other considerations.
> I agree human readable is nice, but if it kills the interchange part,
> then it is useles.
>
> You can also interpret it another way: the humans reading xml are not
> regular humans, they are developers. Ant developers are used with
> dot as decimal separator from all the programming languages.
> In C++ double pi = 3.1416; no matter the language of the programmer.
>
>
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