Re: [xslt] A bit of help
- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
- To: xslt gnome org
- Subject: Re: [xslt] A bit of help
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:33:13 -0500
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:00:57PM +0000, Bjorn Reese wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> > <xsl:value-of select="format-number(-1,'###,###;###,###')"/>|
>
> The current behaviour of libxslt for this case is a conscious
> design decision. William and I discussed it during implementation,
> and although JDK permits the same prefix/suffix for both positive
> and negative numbers in the formatting, it does not allow it for
> parsing. That seemed inconsistant to both of us, and although we
> do not parse the formatted numbers, we decided to follow the
> advice for parsing in JDK, which says "the positive and negative
> prefixes or the suffixes must be distinct", to stay clear of the
> inconsistancy (for who knows what future specs may include?)
Okay thanks for giving a clarification on this issue.
> The decision is even documented in the comments of numbers.c ;)
That's what I understood, precisely by reading the comment. So
far I closed the bug report estimating the current behaviour is the
correct one. I just hope this will be clarified in next version of XSLT.
Daniel
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