[xsl] Floating point numbers in msxml xslt processor

Hi all,
is it true that msxml processor does not treat the floating point
numbers (with scientific notation) like 1.234e-3  as numeric values.

Here is the e.g.:

xmlFile:

<root>
        <elemOne>1.234e-3</elemOne>
        <elemTwo>200</elemTwo>
</root>

I would like to multiply the above values and ouput in the transformed document.

xslFile:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
        <xsl:template match="root">
                <result>
                        <val>
                                <xsl:value-of select="elemOne * elemTwo"/>
                        </val>
                </result>
        </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I am expecting the following output:
<result>
        <val>0.2468</val>
</result>

when i tried this with the builtin xlst engine of xmlspy, it gives the
proper output as above.

But when i transformed  using msxml, i am getting "NaN" in the output:
<result>
        <val>NaN</val>
</result>


does it mean the value 1.234e-3 is not treated as the floating point
value by msxml.

my client application uses the msxml (Internet explorer 6).
is there any workaround to make it work.

Thanks,
Jagdishwar B

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