Re: exponent in number and sorting

2006-03-17 Thread Christine Li
Hi, Reto My previous email didn't really response to your question. Henry Zongaro pointed to me (Thanks, Henry for correcting me) that string value 9.983066E-6 doesn't match XPath 1.0 syntax for a number. number("9.9E-6") will return NaN. xsl:sort will work, however, the return won't be the expec

Re: exponent in number and sorting

2006-03-17 Thread Christine Li
Both the interpreted and compiled processor of the current code base works fine with my example   5.6E-4   0.0056                                                                                           Which version of Xalan are you using? Please try with the latest release. Christine

exponent in number and sorting

2006-03-17 Thread Reto Bachmann-Gmür
hello My xml contains number in the following format: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#float";>9.983066E-6 http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#float";>0.0023 I'm using xsl:sort with data-type="number", however xalan doesn't seem to regard 9.983066E-6 as being smaller than 0.0023. Any way to tell