RE: Decimal precision

With XSLT 2.0 

(a) a numeric literal such as 1.0 is interpreted as a decimal value

(b) you can force numbers to be treated as decimal values by casting

     e.g. xs:decimal($x)

(c) the result of an operation on two decimals, e.g. $x div $y, is itself
    a decimal (though with division, the precision is
implementation-defined)

(d) if you have a schema, and the schema defines the type of an element
    or attribute as decimal, then it's automatically treated as decimal
    without needing an explicit cast (like in (b)).

So summing a set of money amounts should give you the right answer without
any rounding errors.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Neff [mailto:jneff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 02 February 2005 20:17
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Decimal precision
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I found Michael Kay's response to my same question here:
> 
> http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200412/msg00689.html
> 
> My problem is the same, but in Michael's response it sounds 
> like there is a
> way to get my XSLT version 2 stylesheet to use decimals 
> correctly.  Is this
> true?  If so, how is it different under version 2 than 1?
> 
> If not, then can someone please post an example of how to use the
> format-number() function to sum decimals correctly?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim Neff