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Subject: Re: XSLT 2.0 Decimal number silliness
From: Jeff Kenton <jkenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:16:20 -0500

Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kenton [mailto:jkenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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Both lines of output should be equal.  There's got to be
something better.  At least allow specification of number of
fraction digits.

Hi,

Hmm.. Any reason why you can't use format-number() (possibly in combo with
xsl:decimal-format)

That only works for output. Suppose I needed to see if the results of two calculations were the same. I'd have to round every decimal calculation to the same number of digits before I used them. I don't have to do anything like that for doubles.

To me, this means this specification needs more work -- especially since they left decimals as "implementation defined", which means every XSLT processor is free to do something different. Arithmetic shouldn't be "implementation dependent".

--jeff

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