Larger than 32bit signed?

I have recently taken up a project which entails output of statistical
information. Many if not most of the other applications in the
enterprise use XML-RPC as a communications method and I wanted to do
the same for this one.

The problem that I run into is that the XML-RPC specification only
states an "i4" or 4 bytes signed for integers. I find it hard to
believe that no other developer has never wanted any number larger
than the ones provided.

Has there been any research done in the area of adding unsigned or 64
bit numbers to the specification? I understand I can just convert the
number to a string and have the application have the logic to convert
it, but that does not scale.

If this has been posted on the wrong mailing list I apologize ahead of time.

Thank you,
Mark




 
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