Re: [xml] xmlXPathStringEvalNumber vs. atof

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net>]

* Christopher R. Palmer wrote:
> /**
> * xmlXPathStringEvalNumber:
> * @str:  A string to scan
> *
> *  [30a]  Float  ::= Number ('e' Digits?)?

> Is that [30a] from some addendum to XPath 1.0 or is it a libxml extension?

It would have to be an extension, new features cannot be added to W3C
recommendations without re-issuing the recommendation, which in case
of XPath 1.0 has not happened so far. Also, the "Errata" does not in-
clude http://www.w3.org/1999/11/REC-xpath-19991116-errata/ it. It seems
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-April/msg00080.html has some
background on this.
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