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> >It might have been a string that is the string > representation of a number: > > > > "3.1415" (is a string) > > > >but this is completely different from: > > > > 3.1415 (is a number). > > > >What will really be useful is a function with an argument of item(), > >that returns the real type of the argument. > > Or go back to my original suggestion, which was to use if ($x castable as xs:decimal) ... Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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