RE: MSXML Sept. release format-number bug!

This is not a bug but increased conformance !!!

The XSL Spec sais about the number format, amongst other things:

<Quote name="format-number"
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-format-number" note="added
comment">
The format pattern string is in the syntax specified by the JDK 1.1
DecimalFormat <!-- see quote 'Number.BNF' below --> class.
</Quote>

This quote references

<Quote name = "Number.BNF"
href="http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/api/java.text.DecimalFormat.
html">
The following shows the structure of the pattern. 
 pattern    := subpattern{;subpattern}
 subpattern := {prefix}integer{.fraction}{suffix}
 prefix     := '\\u0000'..'\\uFFFD' - specialCharacters
 suffix     := '\\u0000'..'\\uFFFD' - specialCharacters
 integer    := '#'* '0'* '0'
 fraction   := '0'* '#'*
 Notation:
  X*       0 or more instances of X
  (X | Y)  either X or Y.
  X..Y     any character from X up to Y, inclusive.
  S - T    characters in S, except those in T
</Quote>

As you can see from the BNF there is no scientific representation, so the
result you got using the earlier release was wrong and now the parser
conforms with the spec.

Axel
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: charbel.keyrouz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:57 AM
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> Subject: MSXML Sept. release format-number bug!
> 
> 
> With MSXML July release using format-number XSL function used 
> to return the
> correct fomratted value for scientific number (1.2333E4), but 
> when I upgraded to
> the September release it started to return NaN when formating 
> scientific
> numbers. Any ideas!
> I think it 's a bug, what' s weird is that it used to work, anyway the
> performance improvement are very noticeable and that's a very 
> important fact for
> client-side processing.  Does anybody know where I can report 
> such a bug.
> 
> 
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