Re: Xalan Rounding

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Nik Krimm wrote:

..Another rounding question [sorry]:
..
..With the format-number function, if the the digit to be rounded off has a value of exactly .5, xalan rounds down.  Regular round() produced the expected result (rounding up); however I'd prefer to use the format-number function because this template may output various precision decimals (0 - n decimal places).  Sticking with format-number() would allow me to pass this information is as a $format variable. 
..
..Any suggestions on how to handle this?

I just tried your test with both Xalan and Saxon.  With a value of 106.5, 
I saw rounding down to 106 with both.  With a value of 107.5, it rounded 
up to 108.

I suspect that what you are seeing is IEEE-754 round to nearest mode, 
which says that ties are broken by rounding to an even value (don't ask 
why unless you *REALLY* care why it's specified that way).

If this is the cause of what you're seeing (and I'm seeing), this is not
what XSLT requires.

..
..[xml]
..<values>
..<value>106.5</value>
..</values>
..
..
..<xsl:template name="average-values">
..<xsl:param name="format">###</xsl:param>
..<xsl:value-of select="format-number(//value ,'##')" />
..</xsl:template>
..
..[xalan output]
..106
..
..[desired output]
..107
..
..TIA
..
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..

-- 

Jeff Kenton
DataPower Technology, Inc.



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