At 2011-01-24 15:39 +0100, Szabo, Patrick \(LNG-VIE\) wrote:
I'm using saxon 9 EE and xslt 2.0.
I want to round but I'm getting weird outputs.
Because you aren't "rounding to the closest digit", you are "rounding
to the closest even parity digit".
My Template looks like this:
<xsl:template match="data">
<absatz>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@type='Number' and
string-length(substring-after(., '.')) > 2">
<xsl:value-of
select="round-half-to-even(text(), 2)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</absatz>
</xsl:template>
Example:
<data type="Number">1351.845</data>
Output:
<absatz>1351.84</absatz>
Right ... because the "5" is half-rounding the "4" to "4". "4" is
the closest even-parity digit to the value "4.5". "6" is the closes
even-parity digit to the value "5.5".
Desired:
<absatz>1351.85</absatz>
Example:
<data type="Number">298.15499999999997</data>
Output:
<absatz>298.16</absatz> <- which is correct or at least what I want.
That surprises me ... I would have expected "298.15" because the next
digit is not simply "5" or above. I'm guessing it has to do with the
binary representation of the number.
Can anybody explain this to why on time it takes the bigger and the next
time the smaller number ?!
Because "round-half-to-even" rounds to an even-parity digit
(0,2,4,6,8) as you request.
Can I control that somehow ?!
If you are rounding for presentation purposes, then use:
format-string(.,'.00')
... which rounds the third digit to the second digit simply, where
"5" goes to the ceiling (a negative number gets smaller, a positive
number gets bigger).
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . Ken
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