error using number()

Friends,
I am getting this error.

When I run my stylesheet with SAXON instant 6.5.3, everything runs
fine without errors. But my friend ran the same stylesheet with his
SAXON 7 and received this error (below).

Is there some reason why the error only comes up with the SAXON 7?

Mike Ferrando
Washington, DC


Error returned:

bash-2.05b$  java -jar c:/saxon79/saxon7.jar -o ead.html
fa_2002_8859_1_x.xml c:/my_ead_2002_conv/ead_2002_HTML_conv-1.xsl 
Error at variable st_p-sb on line 2280 of
file:/c:/my_ead_2002_conv/ead_2002_HTML_conv-1.xsl:
  Unsuitable operands for arithmetic operation (xs:string,
xs:integer)
Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported

XSL

	<xsl:variable name="st_p-sb" select="number(substring($physdesc_b,
string-length($physdesc_b) -9, 4) - 1000)"/>



--- B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My goodness - such a lot of blood from such a small cut!
> 
> This announcement seems to have done something remarkable: at least
> for a moment in one forum it seems to have erased all concerns
> about XSLT 2.0 and rallied EVERYONE to it's defense.
> 
> How odd: until we saw this I heard quite a few concerns about
> XSLT 2.0 and have had several conversations with developers I
> respect who said that they were thinking of sticking with
> XSLT 1.0 because the gains in 2.0 (for their applications) were
> not worth the losses.  Now all of a sudden non-adoption of
> XSLT 2.0 is "killing xslt".
> 
> 
> Perhaps the folks at Microsoft were concerned that they would be
> criticized for adopting a controversial spec like XSLT 2.0 so they
> decided to rally support for it by announcing that they were not
> going to support it. Then they could change their minds and be
> heros instead of goats. ... Nahhhh. But it sounds good.
> 
> -- Tommie
> -- 
>
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