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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:50:05 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28845 --- Comment #12 from Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> --- The fact that the percent and per-mille scaling can cause overflow (comment #11) has been with us since XSLT 1.0 and is a purely theoretical problem because no-one is likely to use percentages with such extreme values. There are edge cases that we really don't need to legislate for. I don't think that decimal overflow due to mantissa/exponent scaling is a very serious problem either. I'm not sure our specs say so explicitly but I think that in practice xs:decimal is usually implemented as floating point decimal. The effect of format-number(), unless you write a really perverse picture, will almost invariably change the exponent to be something fairly close to zero and therefore very unlikely to blow any limits. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug.
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