Subject: RE: rounding within the "format-number" function
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:48:25 -0000
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> > No, and no. (Not even in 2.0!)
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> xpath2 defines round() to round up and round-half-to-even() to to
> rounding-as-i-was-taught-at-school doesn't it?
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You were obviously at a better school than most people.
We do offer a selection of algorithms, but not everything that anyone wants
(e.g. rounding away from zero); and the only one that does rounding to a
user-specified number of decimal places is round-half-to-even(), which uses
one particular algorithm.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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