Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 Decimal number silliness

[Jeff Kenton <jkenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Kenton [mailto:jkenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> <snip />
>
> > Both lines of output should be equal.  There's got to be
> > something better.  At least allow specification of number of
> > fraction digits.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Hmm.. Any reason why you can't use format-number() (possibly in combo with
> xsl:decimal-format)

That only works for output.  Suppose I needed to see if the results of two calculations were the same.  I'd have to round every decimal calculation to the same number of digits before I used them.  I don't have to do anything like that for doubles.

To me, this means this specification needs more work -- especially since they left decimals as "implementation defined", which means every XSLT processor is free to do something different.  Arithmetic shouldn't be "implementation dependent".

--jeff