I wouldn't know if it will be a double that I will be a decimal.
Ignore the above inebriated statement.. All I meant was, I wouldnt
know if it will be a decimal.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Mailing Lists Mail
daktapaal(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
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THe problem is , I dont know what will come in the $num. It is an
xpath. It comes from an XML element.
SO sometimes, the element contains 988, and sometimes it contains 98.8
.. so my pseudo code actually is :"
$num = /xpath/num
var result = $num div 100
I wouldn't know if it will be a double that I will be a decimal.
Dak
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:57 AM, G. Ken Holman
g(_dot_)ken(_dot_)holman(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
At 2015-01-19 15:46 +0000, 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?
What is happening is that doing the arithmetic with the binary
representations of 9.88 and 100 create a result in binary that when
precisely converted to decimal give you the result you see.
As Martin suggests, if you are using XSLT 2 then you can use decimal
representations of your values and do arithmetic with those.
I hope this helps understand the issue.
. . . . . . Ken
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