RE: [xsl] Loosing Precision after Transformation

["Garvin Franco" <garvin_franco at hotmail dot com>]

Micheal than you very much for your reply.

cheers
Garvin


>From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
>Subject: RE: [xsl] Loosing Precision after Transformation
>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:49:20 +0100
>
>It's the arithmetic that causes the loss of precision, so you should avoid
>the multiplication. Perhaps you might get the required result with
>
><xsl:value-of select="translate(
>                       format-number(number,'00000.00000'),
>                       '.', '')"/>
>
>Michael Kay
>Software AG
>home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of
> > Garvin Franco
> > Sent: 18 April 2002 05:45
> > To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
> > Subject: [xsl] Loosing Precision after Transformation
> >
> >
> > Has anyone had problems loosing precision after transforming
> > a message using
> > Xalan??
> >
> > Problem:
> > I have content stored in an element as follows
> > <aNumber>12345.12345</aNumber>
> >
> > I format the content in this element for output as follows
>
> > note: length 10
> > with 0 padding )
> >
> > <xsl:value-of select="format-number(number*100000,'0000000000')"/>
> >
> > On the ouput I get 1234512344, which is off by .00001. I need
> > the exact
> > value on the source document.  I tried a substring-before and
> > substring-after the the decimal separator '.', then
> > concatenated the total
> > and fractional parts, then formatted as I have shown above,
> > and I got the
> > same thing. I know its loosing precision when the string is
> > changed to a
> > number, but the funny thing is, if a string less than the
> > full length ( 10
> > in this case ) of the field is passed, all is well.
> > Example
> > <number>1234.12345</number> ----> 01234.12345 ( which makes me happy )
> >
> > Does anyone know what approach I can use here to solve this problem?
> >
> > Thanking you in advance
> > Garvin
> >
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