>From David:)
> The xpath/xquery specs
> essentially informally use such a type to
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-numeric
>
> but because it isn't really a type there have to be special XDM
> type promotion rules.
Mit besten Gruessen / Best wishes,
Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
Developer, XML Compiler, L3
Fixpack team lead
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From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 10/02/2010 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] How do I determine that an item is a numeric atomic
value?
> In XPath 1.0:
> ==========
>
> number($x) = number($x)
That would also return true if $x is a string or boolean or a node that
can be converted to a number, for example the string "12" or the boolean
true() or an attribute containing the value "12". In fact I think that's
the closest you can get in XPath 1.0 - and it's good enough, because you
don't really want to know whether it IS a number, you want to know
whether it can be used in a context where a number is required.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
>
> In XPath 2.0
> ==========
> Either the above, or:
>
> $x instance of xs:double or $x instance of xs:decimal