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RE: format-number incorrectly formatting number (using

Subject: RE: format-number incorrectly formatting number (using fop 0.91beta)
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:40:05 +0100
format number xslt
> How many XSLT implementations have you tried?  Looking at the XSLT
> specification, XPath 1.0 Section 3.5 states the numbers are
> double-precision 64-bit IEEE 754 number ... which would surely handle
> the number you have.

I suspect that you will find that

34,567,890,123,456,784.00
34,567,890,123,456,788.00

are adjacent values in the value-space of double-precision IEEE 754, so
anything between these two values will be rounded to one or the other.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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