Re: [xsl] Numbers containing 'e+..' not recognised as numbers

[Drew McLellan <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3 Jul 2005, at 21:26, Michael Kay wrote:

> This format is inaccurately known in programming circles as  
> "scientific
> notation", though I've heard scientists refer to it as "Fortran  
> notation".
>
> There's no direct support for this format in XSLT 1.0. In 2.0, the  
> number()
> function will accept it happily. If you can't move to XSLT 2.0, it  
> looks
> like a job for an extension function.

Thanks, Michael. The fact that it's commonly called scientific  
notation produced a lot more search results than I was getting  
previously.


drew.