Attribute is in the string format " True" or "False" embedded in a XML
CLOB. The point is that this attribute can take completely different
value in future, say "disabled." In that case we will be comparing
strings instead of numbers. also if a completely different routine
were to call this function then there are potentialy exposed to case
sensitivity problem, currently returned values are all caps and decode
will if fail if developer doesn't provide the right case.
Int value is also for the reason that if in the future we decide to
move that string from xml to some kind of a look up table, then the
migration will less painfully other than fact that I will have to
change the function that extracts the data.
Received on Thu Aug 16 2007 - 15:12:14 CDT
