[mmox] commas and dots
Catherine Pfeffer <cathypfeffer@gmail.com> Wed, 25 February 2009 13:18 UTC
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Subject: [mmox] commas and dots
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> <colour>127,255,127</colour>
> <vector>100.0,75.3,28.6</vector>
> <quat>0.5,-0.5,0.5,0.5</quat>
>
> might seem ok, however, consider what happens when someone in a locale
> with a different way of displaying the number tries to figure out what
> this means?
Yes, although a conventional format might be chosen.
What is worse with such a syntax is that you don't take profit of XML
facilities and reinvent your own syntax. Therefore
<colour r="127" g="255" b="127" />
is way better.
--
Cathy
- [mmox] commas and dots Catherine Pfeffer