Re: [Json] Limitations on number size?

"Markus Lanthaler" <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> Wed, 10 July 2013 12:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Limitations on number size?
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On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:07 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> I would appreciate some evidence to back up the claim that the vast, vast
> majority of JSON is handled in an environment where the JSON numbers 0 and
0.0
> do indeed represent the same thing. The RDF W3C workiing group is in the
last
> stages of putting its stamp of approval on JSON-LD, which presents the
JSON
> numbers 0 and 0.0 to RDF as being different.

That's just wrong. When converting JSON-LD to RDF both 0 and 0.0 will result
in a "0"^^xsd:integer.


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