The problem isn't that XML's decimal type doesn't distinguish between 1.2 and 1.20 - it's that versions aren't decimals in the first place. The fact that versi

The problem isn't that XML's decimal type doesn't distinguish between 1.2 and 1.20 - it's that versions aren't decimals in the first place. The fact that versions often contain numbers separated by decimal points or that often times, versions only have two components or that minor versions may rarely exceed 9 for a particular product are merely coincidences.