Re: [xsl] Saxon Div Issue

Mailing Lists Mail daktapaal(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com wrote:
> I have a value 9.88 , I use the div  to do an operation
>
> Pseudo code:
>
> var num = 9.88
> var result = $num div 100
>
> I expect 0.0988 .. I get 0.09880000000000001
>
> I am using Saxon-EE-9.5.1-5.jar
>
> What is happening?



If you use

  <xsl:variable name="$num" as="xs:decimal" select="9.88"/>

and then do

  $num div 100

the problem should not occur. I suspect you use an xs:double instead, 
depending on your real code.
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