[Zope-CVS] SVN: soap/trunk/README.txt require ZSI 1.6, since it handles floats better than ZSI 1.5

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Log message for revision 29014:
  require ZSI 1.6, since it handles floats better than ZSI 1.5

Changed:
  U   soap/trunk/README.txt

-=-
Modified: soap/trunk/README.txt
===================================================================
--- soap/trunk/README.txt	2005-02-01 16:27:46 UTC (rev 29013)
+++ soap/trunk/README.txt	2005-02-01 18:50:18 UTC (rev 29014)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 This SOAP implementation allows you provide SOAP views for objects. The 
 SOAP layer is based on `ZSI <http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/>`__.
 
-The package requires ZSI 1.5 or better (which in turn requires that
+The package requires ZSI 1.6 or better (which in turn requires that
 `PyXML <http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/>`__ 0.6.6 or better is installed).
 
 SOAP support is implemented in a way very similar to the standard Zope 3
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
   ...1...2...3...4...
 
 
-Note that floats dont seem to work for some reason:
+Note that floats are returned as xsd:decimal values:
 
   >>> print http(r"""
   ... POST / HTTP/1.0
@@ -296,14 +296,14 @@
   ...  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
   ... </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
   ... """)
-  HTTP/1.0 500 ...
+  HTTP/1.0 200 ...
   Content-Length: ...
   Content-Type: text/xml...
   <BLANKLINE>
-  ...Fault...
+  ...xsi:type="xsd:decimal">42.200000</...
 
 
-Nor do float arrays:
+Even if they're in float arrays:
 
   >>> print http(r"""
   ... POST / HTTP/1.0
@@ -331,11 +331,14 @@
   ...  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
   ... </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
   ... """)
-  HTTP/1.0 500 ...
+  HTTP/1.0 200 ...
   Content-Length: ...
   Content-Type: text/xml...
   <BLANKLINE>
-  ...Fault...
+  ...xsi:type="xsd:decimal">1.100000</...
+  ...xsi:type="xsd:decimal">2.200000</...
+  ...xsi:type="xsd:decimal">3.300000</...
+  ...xsi:type="xsd:decimal">4.400000</...
 
 
   >>> result = http(r"""