Subject: Re: [xsl] Implicit casting from double to float From: "Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:35:01 +0530 |
This could be a more accurate example for the feature I described, <xsl:variable name="num" select="xs:double('1e4')" as="xs:float" /> <xsl:value-of select="$num" /> This runs fine with Saxon 9.x. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I guess it's more like: >> >> Double d = 1e4; >> Float f = d.floatValue(); > > This is a Java syntax for extracting float contents (perhaps, with > loss of information) from a double value, and assigning to a float > variable. > > My point was that, float = double assignment gives a compilation error > with Java. > > But a > float = double assignment works with XSLT 2.0 without giving any > warning or a error. > > It seems to me, Java has a stricter static typing rules than XSLT 2.0. -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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