source: trunk/src/xmlpatterns/data/qschemanumeric_p.h@ 223

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// This file is not part of the Qt API.  It exists purely as an
// implementation detail.  This header file may change from version to
// version without notice, or even be removed.
//
// We mean it.

#ifndef Patternist_Numeric_H
#define Patternist_Numeric_H

#include "qitem_p.h"
#include "qprimitives_p.h"

QT_BEGIN_HEADER

QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE

/**
 * @file
 * @short Contains class Numeric. This file was originally called qnumeric_p.h,
 * but various build systems cannot handle that that name happens to be
 * identical to another one, the one in QtCore.
 */

namespace QPatternist
{
    /**
     * @short Base class for all numeric values.
     *
     * @section creation Creating Instances
     *
     * @todo
     * - Depending on what type of val
     * - Numeric::createFromString
     * - Various classes has ::Zero(), ::PosINF(), ::NaN(), NegINF()
     * - Never use constructor, use createFromNative, or createFromString.
     *
     * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#numeric-functions">XQuery 1.0
     * and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators, 6 Functions and Operators on Numerics</a>
     * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#func-overloading">XQuery 1.0
     * and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators, 1.2 Function Overloading</a>
     * @author Frans Englich <[email protected]>
     * @ingroup Patternist_xdm
     * @todo discuss data hierarchy the non existatnt number data type
     */
    class Numeric : public AtomicValue
    {
    public:

        typedef QExplicitlySharedDataPointer<Numeric> Ptr;

        /**
         * Creates a Numeric sub-class that is appropriate for @p number.
         *
         * @note usages of e/E is not handled; Double::fromLexical should
         * be used in that case. There is no function similar to fromLexical that also
         * takes double values into account(because that distinction is done in the scanner).
         *
         * Currently used in the parser to create appropriate expressions.
         */
        static AtomicValue::Ptr fromLexical(const QString &number);

        /**
         * @returns the particular number's value as a native representation of
         * the type xs:double. This can be considered that the value is cast to
         * xs:double.
         */
        virtual xsDouble toDouble() const = 0;