This is very useful, thankyou.
It may very well be that we are in a hurry, is it possible to summarise why
datatyping a variable is so useful?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com>
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Subject: RE: [xsl] when to use 'as' attribute on a variable
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:35:07 -0000
>
> 1. when you should and should not be using an as attribute on
> xsl:variable in XSLT 2
Use it every time you declare a variable, unless you're in too much of a
hurry.
>
> 2. Which numerical datatype to use in which situation when declaring
> variables holding numerical data.
>
Depends a bit what you're trying to achieve. My rule of thumb would be:
- use xs:integer for whole numbers
- don't use subtypes of xs:integer
- use xs:double for continuous quantities (e.g. length, weight)
- use xs:decimal for discrete quantities (e.g. money)
- don't use xs:float
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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