[xacml] [Steve Hanna] Glitch in moving from decimal to double

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From: Steve Hanna <>
To: Anne Anderson <>
Subject: Glitch in moving from decimal to double
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:30:33 -0500

I see that v18e reflects the TC's decision to move from
xsi:decimal to xsi:double. I'm pleased with this decision,
but I noticed a problem:

The document cited as defining the arithmetic functions
([IBMSDA]) does not exist. Or at least the URL given in
the document (http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/double/decarith.html)
does not work. I suspect that this is the result of a
global search and replace operation, changing decimal
to double.

I suggest that this reference be replaced with IEEE 754,
which defines binary floating point arithmetic and is
cited by XML Schema for that purpose.
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