If there's a better way of specifying it, then I'd be interested in your
suggestions.

The spec leaves it implementation-defined.

Saxon produces a result with 18+N+M digits where N and M are the number of
digits in the operands. I'd be very happy to implement a better rule if I
could think of one.

Michael Kay 

# -----Original Message-----
# From: Jeff Kenton [mailto:jkenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
# Sent: 25 March 2004 16:53
# To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
# Subject:  XSLT 2.0 Decimal number silliness
# 
# 
# I've been looking at XSLT 2.0 decimal numbers (again), and I 
# still think the WC needs to do better.
# 
# Consider the following stylesheet:
# 
# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
# <xsl:stylesheet 
# xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0" >
# 
# <xsl:template match="/">~
# <xsl:value-of select="2.0 div 3.0" />~
# <xsl:value-of select="0.444 div 0.666" />~ </xsl:template>
# 
# </xsl:stylesheet>
# 
# Using Saxon 7.x, this results in:
# 
# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>~
# 0.666666666666666667~
# 0.666666666666666666666667~
# 
# Both lines of output should be equal.  There's got to be 
# something better.  At least allow specification of number of 
# fraction digits.
# 
# --jeff
# 
# 
# 
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