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Subject: RE: format-number() causing problems to non-java implementators
From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:55:28 -0000
RE:  format-number() causing problems to non-java imple
> The 'string()' function is astonishingly difficult to implement
> correctly without native language support, specifically clause 2,
> subclause 7, XPATH section 4.2: "there must be as many, but only
> as many, more digits as are needed to uniquely distinguish the
> number from all other IEEE 754 numeric values."

Actually, that's quite hard to implement in Java, too.

Mike Kay 

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