[xsl] function number()

[Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>I am using xalan-J transformation engine on UNIX platform.
>When I use the xsl function number() for a large value , there seems to 
be
>an overflow and the function returns an arbitrarily large number.
>e.g. number('1900385999.000') returns 576398327.327184

For Xalan-specific questions, you're better off hitting Xalan's own 
mailing liet.

If you're using the same release of Xalan on both platforms, I can't think 
of anything that would cause this difference unless it's a divergence in 
the underlying JVM's math libraries. If you aren't using the same release, 
fix that and try again; there was a known bug in some versions of Xalan's 
string-to-double conversion.

(Note that we don't use the built-in Java function because it would accept 
strings that XSLT says we shouldn't.)

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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more. 
"may'ron DaroQbe'chugh vaj bIrIQbej"  ("Put down the squeezebox and nobody 
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