Michael Kay wrote:
I tend to agree with you that I would much rather have an interoperable spec
on this. However, some of the XQuery vendors push hard against this,
especially those who are trying to translate XPath predicates into SQL
predicates.
Explain a little more, if you can. Certainly they're not opposed to
interoperability in principle. And, presumably, the minimal legal
implementation of 18 digits total isn't good enough for their purposes. What
is it the XQuery folks need that a fixed length or specified decimal length
wouldn't solve? It would be really nice to find a clean solution that meets
everyones needs.
--jeff