Dak, in the response below you are misunderstanding our use of the
terminology. We are talking about the representation of the number
internally in memory, we are not talking about whether the element or
the attribute is a number or not a number. We are not talking about
radix. We are talking about internal representation.
As Martin says, the numeric value of an element or an attribute is
represented in memory as a double-length binary value unless you tell
it differently. If you are using XSLT 2.0 you can tell the processor
to treat it differently in memory by casting the element or attribute
value into a decimal representation internally.
Then, when you do arithmetic with decimal representations of values,
the result is a clean decimal result. There is no loss of detail as
when happens when
using binary.
So, in your pseudo code below, you do know that it will be a
double-length binary value because you have not cast it to be
anything else. Radix has nothing to do with this discussion.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . Ken
At 2015-01-19 16:06 +0000, Mailing Lists Mail daktapaal(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
wrote:
>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
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
> 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
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