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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9179 xsltc not putting leading and trailing zeroes (math110) ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-05-16 20:47 ------- Note that both Xalan-J's and Saxon's output is also incorrect. I have stressed this multiple times to the Xalan-J team, and the maintainers of the conformance suite. The value "0.00040" is wrong -- it should be "0.0004". You can verify this by reading the language of the recommendation: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-String-Functions Here's relevant excerpt: "otherwise, the number is represented in decimal form as a Number including a decimal point with at least one digit before the decimal point and at least one digit after the decimal point, preceded by a minus sign (-) if the number is negative; there must be no leading zeros before the decimal point apart possibly from the one required digit immediately before the decimal point; beyond the one required digit after the decimal point there must be as many, but only as many, more digits as are needed to uniquely distinguish the number from all other IEEE 754 numeric values." Since a trailing "0" can never distinguish one number from another, _any_ trailing 0 is incorrect. This bug is present in both Saxon and Xalan-J because they both use James Clark's original XT string formatting code. If you're going to fix it, you should do it right, and not follow the conformance test, which is broken.
