NaN and Infinity in format-number

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Subject: NaN and Infinity in format-number
From: Jack Matheson <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:09:45 -0600

In the following stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/ Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> 1: <xsl:value-of select="format-number(0.0 div 0.0, '(#)')"/> 2: <xsl:value-of select="format-number(1.0 div 0.0, '(#)')"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

...I see interesting results in Saxon 6 and Xalan 2.6:

    1: NaN
    2: (Infinity)

I was expecting either parenthesis around both values or no parenthesis at all. Is this a result of the XSLT 1.0 processors using DecimalFormat in the JDK? Is this the conforming XSLT 1.0 behavior?

I noticed Saxon 8 puts parenthesis around both values. Is this an an XSLT 2.0 action?

Any help is appreciated!

-Jack

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