Re: Problem using Math functions

Hi David
               Thanks for your reply. I am using XSLT1 so i will try to
migrate to XSLT2. Is there any transformer property that i can set at the
run time for setting the precision bounds?

Thanks
Pankaj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:43 PM
Subject: Re:  Problem using Math functions


>
> XSLT 1 uses IEEE double arithmetic, it does not have arbitrary precision
> integer arithmetic, so you are limited in the number of significant
> digits that can be stored.
>
>
> XSLT2 will give you access to the xs:integer type which does allow
> essentially arbitrarily large integers (up to some system specified
> bounds)
>
> David
>
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