2009/1/7 Mukul Gandhi <gandhi(_dot_)mukul(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>:
Hi all,
When I ran the following XSLT 2.0 code, with Saxon 9.x
<xsl:variable name="num1" select="xs:double('1e4')" as="xs:double" />
<xsl:variable name="num2" select="$num1" as="xs:float" />
<xsl:value-of select="$num2" />
I get the output,
10000
The XSLT 2.0 processor has no problem doing this operation. No warning
is produced either.
But a similar operation in Java is a serious compile time error,
Please consider this Java fragment,
float num = (double)1e4;
System.out.println(num);
This Java fragment doesn't compile, and following error is generated,
test.java:3: possible loss of precision
found : double
required: float
float num = (double)1e4;
^
Could somebody please explain this behavior with the XSLT 2.0 system.
I guess it's more like:
Double d = 1e4;
Float f = d.floatValue();
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