Re: [xslt] XPath number formatting

[Bjorn Reese <breese mail1 stofanet dk>]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2006-04-10 11:20:18 +0200, Bjorn Reese wrote:

> > People who need to convert numbers into strings and back without loss
> > of precision want to use the excessive digits to convey as much
> > information as possible to be able to round numbers correctly when
> > they are converted back from strings to numbers.
>
>
> And *being able* to do that is very important.

My quarrel has always been with xsl:format-number(), so I do not mind
if add the requirement that number(string(N)) == N for any number N.