[xsd-users] Limiting field sizes when serializing to DOM documents

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Matt,

Matt Burnham <matt.burnham.ctr at mhpcc.hpc.mil> writes:

> Most of the other attributes are also xsd:decimal and all of them have
> 24 decimal places (mostly trailing zero's).

I did some digging and it appear that this is how the combination of
std::fixed and setprecision() works. We have to use std::fixed because
xsd:decimal cannot be in scientific notation. For the upcoming 3.0.0
release we are going to try to address this issue. If you would like,
I can create a patch against 3.0.0.b2 for you.

Another way to "fix" this, without upgrading XSD, is to change
xsd:decimal to xsd:double or xsd:float. With those types you
shouldn't get any trailing zeros.

hth,
-boris