[uf-rest] "typed" microformats proposal

[Bob Ippolito]

If you specify exactly how much precision it needs to have, at least  
it's easy to come up with a test suite.  If it's defined to have  
infinite precision, it's anyone's guess if your implementation will  
be interoperable...

Infinite precision also makes it difficult to work with in languages  
that don't have that concept.  For example, if I were writing a C  
implementation, I would probably punt and use int64_t instead of  
going all out and linking to GMP.

On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:

> Excellent comments -- I agree with most of them.  For those who  
> don't know, the easiest way to see them is via history:
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki?title=rest%2Fdatatypes&diff=0&oldid=4945
>
> I'll wait to see if anyone else has a different perspective before  
> integrating Kevin's comments.
>
> The one area I'm most unsure about is "int" -- is there any harm in  
> just calling this "any integer" rather than restricting it to  
> "int32"?  How would the failure/parsing modes differ?
>
> -- Ernie P.
>
>
> On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Kevin Marks wrote:
>
>> Comments added to the page
>> On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>>
>>> Doh -- my apologies for the lack of plaintext.  Here it is again  
>>> -- Ernie P.
>>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Since nobody seemed to have anything new to add, I've finished up  
>>> the proposal for how to add datatypes to XOXO:
>>>
>>> http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/datatypes
>>>
>>> As you may recall, the proposal is to use XML-RPC datatypes with  
>>> a few caveats (e.g., not ".iso8601"). Here's an example:
>>>
>>>  <dl class="typed xoxo">
>>>   <dt>key</dt><dd class="string">value</dd>
>>>   <dt>integer</dt><dd class="int">137</dd>
>>>   <dt>real</dt><dd class="double">3.14159265</dd>
>>>   <dt>date</dt><dd class="dateTime">1994-11-05T13:15:30Z</dd>
>>>   <dt>date(abbr)</dt><dd class="dateTime"><abbr  
>>> title="1994-11-05">November 5, 1994</abbr></dd>
>>>   <dt>true</dt><dd class="boolean">1</dd>
>>>   <dt>false</dt><dd class="boolean">0</dd>
>>>   <dt>data</dt><dd class="base64"><a  
>>> href="data:;base64,sdcfo2JTiXE=" type="image/jpg">my image</a></dd>
>>>  </dl>
>>>
>>> As always, let me know what you think.  Thanks!
>>>
>>> -- Ernie P.
>>>
>>>
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