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RE: format-number() causing problems to non-java implementators
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] format-number() causing problems to non-java implementators
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:55:28 -0000
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> The 'string()' function is astonishingly difficult to implement
> correctly without native language support, specifically clause 2,
> subclause 7, XPATH section 4.2: "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."
Actually, that's quite hard to implement in Java, too.
Mike Kay
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