[IPP] Does IPP have a float / double attribute syntax?

[IPP] Does IPP have a float / double attribute syntax?

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Jun 28 19:57:40 UTC 2013


Daniel,

On 2013-06-28, at 3:29 PM, "Manchala, Daniel" <Daniel.Manchala at xerox.com> wrote:
> Does IPP support a float or a double data type attribute syntax? I know it supports boolean, integer, text, name, uri, etc.

No, there are no floating-point data types in IPP.

> I know that CUPS which is an IPP implementation supports float.

No, it actually doesn't.  CUPS passes floating point numbers as name values (strings).

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair


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