It's not a bug. The lexical structure is defined in the XPath specification:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#NT-Number Dave "Rick Bullotta" <rick.bullotta@light To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hammer.com> cc: (bcc: David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM) Subject: Exponential formats and XSLT format-number function? 05/23/2002 01:24 PM Please respond to xalan-dev The default output for something like Java's Double.toString() method may format a value in exponential form, such as 1.57E-2. However, it seems that the format-number function does not handle this type of input (although Double.parseDouble would). Is this a bug or a designed behavior? Is there a W3C or ISO standard for string representation of floating point values in XML? Thanks for any wisdom. Rick Bullotta CTO Lighthammer Software (www.lighthammer.com)
