[xslt] number() floated?

[Konrad Korzeniowski <konrad pandur net>]

Hi there,

I'm using 1.1.26-6 version of libxslt (Debian Lenny), and cannot find any explanation regarding described below behaviour.

I got following simple xslt file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>
    <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:value-of select="number('8.95')"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

running xsltproc with this xsl against any xml gives:
8.949999999999999

Is this expected? Shouldn't this be 8.85?

Thanks for any explanation.

Best regards,
Konrad Korzeniowski