Re: [xsl] Saxon Div Issue

Subject: Re: [xsl] Saxon Div Issue
From: "Mailing Lists Mail daktapaal@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:40:58 -0000
So Solution is to do :
 <xsl:variable name="num" select="xs:decimal(/xpath/num)"/>
?

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:27 AM, G. Ken Holman g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dak, in the response below you are misunderstanding our use of the
> terminology.  We are talking about the representation of the number
> internally in memory, we are not talking about whether the element or the
> attribute is a number or not a number.  We are not talking about radix.  We
> are talking about internal representation.
>
> As Martin says, the numeric value of an element or an attribute is
> represented in memory as a double-length binary value unless you tell it
> differently.  If you are using XSLT 2.0 you can tell the processor to treat
> it differently in memory by casting the element or attribute value into a
> decimal representation internally.
>
> Then, when you do arithmetic with decimal representations of values, the
> result is a clean decimal result.  There is no loss of detail as when
> happens when
> using binary.
>
> So, in your pseudo code below, you do know that it will be a double-length
> binary value because you have not cast it to be anything else.  Radix has
> nothing to do with this discussion.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . Ken
>
> At 2015-01-19 16:06 +0000, Mailing Lists Mail daktapaal@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> >I wouldn't know if it will be a double that I will be a decimal.
>> Ignore the above inebriated statement.. All I meant was, I wouldnt
>> know if it will be a decimal.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Mailing Lists Mail
>> daktapaal@xxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > THe problem is , I dont know what will come in the $num. It is an
>> > xpath. It comes from an XML element.
>> >
>> > SO sometimes, the element contains 988, and sometimes it contains 98.8
>> > .. so my pseudo code actually is :"
>> >
>> > $num = /xpath/num
>> > var result = $num div 100
>> >
>> > I wouldn't know if it will be a double that I will be a decimal.
>> >
>> > Dak
>
>
>
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