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Redmine EML - Bug #2272 (Resolved): Base datatypes in eml-attribute BoundsGroup preclude scientific notationhttps://projects.ecoinformatics.org/ecoinfo/issues/22722005-11-14T17:41:45ZWade Sheldonsheldon@uga.edu
<p>The 'minimum' and 'maximum' elements defined in the eml-attribute BoundsGroup<br />are currently based on the xml-schema data type 'xs:decimal'; however, this data<br />type does not support scientific notation so metadata creators are forced to<br />encode very large (or small) bounds in expanded decimal notation. This<br />represents an unnecessary burden and could introduce problems if authors are<br />required to display more digits than are known to be significant. Changing the<br />base data type to 'xs:float' would accomodate both decimal and scientific<br />notations so would not introduce backward compatibility issues.</p>