Thanks, this works of course but wrap every number in format-number() is too
cumbersome...
besides it seems only XSL understand IEEE this way ;-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: Re:  XSL SUM BUG?


> At 2004-02-19 22:44 +0300, Andrew wrote:
> >I've following xml:
> ><aa>
> >  <plan SUMM="700000.1"/>
> ></aa>
> >
> >execute sum(//plan/@SUMM) and you'll get 700000.09999...- what the ...?
> >but if you change 7 on 1 or 2 all works as expected- 1 preserved.
> >tested on .NET/xmlspy.
>
> IEEE arithmetic is not always so precise.
>
> If you do format-number(sum(//plan/@SUMM),'#.0') you will always get the
.1
> because the spec says to round lesser digits to the least significant
digit.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> ..................... Ken
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