[xsl] processing numbers in scientific notatioin

["j_aseef i" <j_aseef@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I am having some problems in getting return mails from the list, hence 
continuing on my question as a new thread. To give more back ground on the 
question, the problem occured when the same files were ported from 
weblogic6.1 to weblogic7 (hope this doesn look like a weblogic specific 
question). The two things which i am confused over are
1. When the number is given direclty it works fine but when the value in 
question is taken from an xml file, it is not recognized by xsl parser.
> <xsl:value-of select="format-number((-3.9023177125017977E-4 * 100), '0.00', 
> 'eurofrmt')"/> is working fine.

2. This thing works perfectly fine on weblogic6.1 but not in version 7 of 
the same (i beleive the same pareser could be used as nothing is mentioned 
in the releae notes for the version 7). Hence is there any syntactical 
enforements needed so that the fortran/scientific number formats are 
properly reconginzed. Is it ok to assume that version 7. uses a stricter 
parser which required some explicit directives for picking these formats 
properly.

Thanks a lot the previous answers,
aseef.j

> I need to process values passed in decimal format. The problem is when 
> numbers are passed in scientific notaion the number() function is not 
> recognizing it and outputs a NaN.
> This following works fine
> <xsl:value-of select="format-number((-3.9023177125017977E-4 * 100), '0.00', 
> 'eurofrmt')"/>

It shouldn't work fine if the processor is XSLT 1.0 conformant: it
should raise an XPath syntax error. XPath 1.0 does not allow numbers in
scientific notation (or the Fortran notation that we programmers like to
call "scientific notation").
> I read somewhere that xpath2 compliant parsers alone process these kind of 
> data.

Yes, XPath 2.0 handles this notation. But at the moment this restricts
you to Saxon 7.x (or the new experimental version of Xalan).



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