Re: Leading +

On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:15:36 +0200 (MET DST), Oliver Becker wrote:

>Hi,
>
>according to the XPath spec, number('+1') should return NaN, shouldn't 
>it?. But it seems, XT, Saxon, Xalan and OracleXSL don't agree with me.
>
>Who is right?

IMO you are, though I read Mike Kay's paraphrase of the spec rather
than the real thing.

Saxon 6.2.2 also produces 100 for number('1e2') which is again
"wrong", and I would not be surprised (or upset) if the others do too.

Regards,
Trevor Nash

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