At 11:32 PM 7/6/2002 -0600, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
>Jonathan Robie:
>
> > So far, when I ask how I am supposed to sort my integers correctly, you
> > have told me merely that I could use many layers of software to do this.
>
>Oh, I almost forgot to mention.
>
>Did someone forget <xsl:sort data-type="number"> ?
Sure, people can add a type specifier for the sort to XSL, or add a cast to
XQuery, to make these things come out correctly - but if they forget, their
program has a subtle bug. I don't think the solution to supporting types
is to ask the programmer to do casts.
Jonathan
