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- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:32:08 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21599 --- Comment #3 from Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> --- When the specification describes things by means of an algorithm, there is no requirement for an implementation to use the same algorithm; it can use any algorithm it likes that delivers the same result. The format-number text is the result of a great deal of review and feedback during the course of many drafts of the XSLT 2.0 specification, resulting from experience with XSLT 1.0 where different implementors interpreted the specification differently. If it seems to spell things out in too much detail, that's a reaction against the 1.0 spec which left things far too vague. I'm very reluctant to make any changes motivated only by making it simpler or less algorithmic, because there's too much risk of introducing an accidental incompatibility or ambiguity. The grouping positions on the fractional side do not need to be extrapolated because there will never be more digits in the result than there are in the picture. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug.
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