Hi Cristine,
Thanks for your reply. I think adapting the code generating the source
xml is the way to go.
However I'm a bit surprised as http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#float
says "For example, -1E4, 1267.43233E12, 12.78e-2, 12 , -0, 0 and INF are
all legal literals for float" and I would have thought XSLT and XML
Schema share the same datatypes.
Cheers,
reto
Christine Li wrote:
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 expected result.
You'd better change the format of those string values. If you really
need to use scientific notation represents numbers, you may have to
write a user extension function to do the conversion from string to
double.
Hope it helps,
Christine Li
XSLT Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Tel: (905)413-2601
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Reto Bachmann-Gmür <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>*
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exponent in number and sorting
hello
My xml contains number in the following format:
<ns6:childStrength
rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#float";>9.983066E-6</ns6:childStrength>
<ns6:childStrength
rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#float";>0.0023</ns6:childStrength>
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
xalan to do this?
Cheers,
reto
