RE: how to keep big integer format?

> It works! Thanks a lot!

Yes, it works, but it's not the right solution. Rather than convert both
numbers to floating point, doing floating point arithmetic, and then
adjusting the display format, you should use integer arithmetic throughout.

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


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Martinez [mailto:Brian.Martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:58 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  how to keep big integer format?
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="format-number(object_id, '#0')"/>
> 
> hth,
> b.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lin, Jessica [mailto:jlin@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:50 PM
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  how to keep big integer format?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > <blueprint>
> >   <marker_object>
> >      <object_id>4967038</objet_id>
> >   </marker_object>
> > </blueprint>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I am using xslt to transform xml to xml and want to update 
> object_id 
> > value by adding 1. But the result returns 4.967039E6 instead of
> 4967039.
> > How can I get what I want?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Jessica