Subject: RE: testing for string and number in XSLT 2.0 was Re: Test For Numeric Values?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:59:51 +0100
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> >It might have been a string that is the string
> representation of a number:
> >
> > "3.1415" (is a string)
> >
> >but this is completely different from:
> >
> > 3.1415 (is a number).
> >
> >What will really be useful is a function with an argument of item(),
> >that returns the real type of the argument.
> >
Or go back to my original suggestion, which was to use
if ($x castable as xs:decimal) ...
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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