- From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:03:10 -0000
- To: "'xsl-editors@w3.org'" <xsl-editors@w3.org>
>p.s. Coverage of format-number in Michael Kay's XSLT Programmer's Reference seems >to imply that scientific notation is already supported in XSLT 1.0 (pg 82 first >pp, pg 458 second pp), however scientific notation is not mentioned in the JDK >1.1 DecimalFormat This is a known error in the book. Generally I concur with the remarks that format-number() is underspecified. The essence of the problem is that it is underspecified in the JDK 1.1 documentation. But there are other issues, for example XSLT doesn't say how errors should be handled, and it doesn't say whether an implementation that mirrored JDK 1.3 would be conformant or not. Currently Saxon exhibits different behaviour depending on which JVM is in use, which is hardly a satisfactory state of affairs. Mike Kay
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