This has now been logged as a Saxon bug and a fix is in Subversion
https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2509532&group_id=29872&ati
d=397617
I have also added a couple of test cases to the W3C XSLT test suite.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:gandhi(_dot_)mukul(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 07 January 2009 07:02
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Implicit casting from double to float
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.
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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi
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