[tei-council] datatypes

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote:

>* tei.data.numeric: the change removes support for a constituency
>  that we already now about: those who need to enter floating point
>  numbers.
>
I thought we went through this on TEI-L, and someone like
M Beddows showed that the W3C datatypes did do everything
needed?

> Furthermore, I still claim it makes sense to permit
>  percentages
>
at first blush, I think a percentage is like a dimension,
not a numeric (width=23cm, width=88%). mixing
it in with numeric seems pretty weird. I may well be wrong.

> (One could argue, though, that the percentages should
>  be limited to 8 characters maximum (effectively limiting them to 3
>  or 4 decimal places of precision), so that any tei.data.numeric
>  value could fit into 64 bits.)
>  
>
haven't we gone beyond worrying about number of bits
we use up?

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