This transformation:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="vNum" select="0.0000000155"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$vNum"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when performed by a specific xslt processor produces:
1.55E-08
1. Is this a bug? This seems difficult to answer from the specs of XSLT
1.0 and XPath 1.0
Mike Kay says in his book that:
"Unlike most other programming languages, XPath does not use scientific
notation for floating point numbers, either on input or on output. I f
you want to enter the number one trilion, you must write 1000000000000,
not 1.0E12. The only exception is that scientific notation is available
when you output a number using the format-number() function ..."
2. Another minor question here is that no xml declaration is produced
--
is this also a bug?
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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