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W3C Releases XForms
An anonymous reader submits: "On the heels of several other releases, the W3C has released XForms as a Candidate Recommendation. Coverage here and here. XForms is the way-better version of HTML forms -- it's XML-based and includes built-in client-side validation and calculations, without scripting. It is expected to replace old-fashioned HTML forms in XHTML 2.0. It's also being viewed by many as the standards-based alternative to Microsoft's XDocs. Now's your chance to try it out and submit your comments, before the official Recommendation comes out in a few months."
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Why are you storing phone numbers as integers? They aren't integers. They are a string of digits.
You're right, they are strings of digits -- like most of integers I've seen so far...
root@aio:~# nmap -sX -iR -p1- # Ho, ho, ho! Merry Xmas, everyone!
Integers allow adding, substraction, multiplication and a reduced form of division. It is meaningless to apply these operations to phone numbers.
Phone numbers are often convetionally represented as letters in the USA and several other countries - dial "1-800-FREE" etc. Many ordinary people use these mnemonics, too.
And international dialling codes vary from country to country (though most countries now use 00), and it's LONG been a de-facto standard (now a real one for GSM phone networks) to use + to represent ("prefix your own international dialling code").
And lots of people are behind private exchanges. They may not support external direct dial. Particularly in the UK and Ireland, lots of people present their number as a string with an embedded "Ex." such as "+353 12 34 56 89 Ex. 9871"