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Re: Parsing strings as numbers

To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Subject: Re: Parsing strings as numbers
From: James Clark <jjc at jclark dot com>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:10:39 +0700
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Andrew Kimball wrote:
> 
> According to my reading of the XPath spec, '1e200' and '+2.0' are not valid
> numbers.

The spec seems fairly unambiguous on this to me.
 
> 1. Can it possibly be the intended behavior to disallow scientific notation
> and a leading plus sign?

Yes.  XPath 1.0 is trying very hard to be small.

James


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