Re: [xslt] xsl:sort with really big integers

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 06:32:11PM -0600, darrell wrote:
> okay, sorry about the 80K message, not so good, i have moved the whole 
> project onto a public server that should be online all the time, i 
> created a step by step demo for xsltproc, the following page has the xsl 
> source, the xml input and the html output
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/ddupasedm/xslt-notes/xslt.html#interestingpart
> 
> the file:
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/ddupasedm/xslt-notes/usa-weapons-sales-1999.html
> 
> has the output with saudi arabia as the least most buyingest country 
> when they are actually the most buyingest country of usa weapons ( they 
> spent $ 4,815,917,000.00 USD on weapons from USA in 1999 )
> 
> hope that is a little easier to look at

  yeah, I need to investigate that . Might be related to using an
integer for the sort or something similar. Note also that XPath has
no notion of "ingeger" only numbers which are floats. Concerning the exponential
notation serialization, that something which is not standard, that I objected
somewhat but libxslt user's community strongly argued for so ...

Daniel

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