Hi, I would like someone to confirm my suspicion, if possible. I have not used cocoon very much. However, I understand that it uses Xalan. I have a question related to compliance of the number() function implemenation. I work primarily with TestXSLT from Xalan C++ v1.1. I have the XML file: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <?xml-stylesheet href="UseConvertSciToNumString.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> <?cocoon-process type="xslt"?> <main> <mynum num="1"/> <mynum num="-2"/> <mynum num="3E-3"/> <mynum num="-2E-4"/> <mynum num=".5E-3"/> <mynum num=".3E4"/> <mynum num=".2E-4"/> <mynum num="-.6E3"/> <mynum num="-.6E-4"/> <mynum num="6.022E23"/> <mynum num=".312E1"/> <mynum num="312E-2"/> <mynum num="-0.312E1"/> <mynum num="-312E-2"/> <mynum num="923.9E-1"/> <mynum num="1.625E-12"/> <mynum num="1.E-5"/> <mynum num="2.14160E-3"/> </main> and I run: testXSLT -IN TestNumber.xml -OUT TestNumberOut.XML -XSL UseConvertSciToNumString.xsl and I get: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <html><head><title>Output for web page</title></head><body><table align="center" border="1"><th>num</th><th>converted</th><th>number()</th> <tr><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>-2</td><td>-2</td><td>-2</td></tr> <tr><td>3E-3</td><td>0.003</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>-2E-4</td><td>-0.0002</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>.5E-3</td><td>0.0005</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>.3E4</td><td>3000</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>.2E-4</td><td>0.00002</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>-.6E3</td><td>-600</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>-.6E-4</td><td>-0.00006</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>6.022E23</td><td>60220000000000000000000</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>.312E1</td><td>3.12</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>312E-2</td><td>3.12</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>-0.312E1</td><td>-3.12</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>-312E-2</td><td>-3.12</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>923.9E-1</td><td>92.39</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>1.625E-12</td><td>0.000000000001625</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>1.E-5</td><td>0.00001</td><td>NaN</td></tr> <tr><td>2.14160E-3</td><td>0.0021416</td><td>NaN</td></tr> </table></body></html> Notice that number() returns NaN for scientific notation. here is the XSL file: <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0" > <!-- Example usage of ConvertSciToNumString.xsl --> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head> <title>Output for web page</title> </head> <body> <xsl:apply-templates/> </body> </html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="main"> <table border="1" align="center"> <th>num</th> <th>converted</th> <th>number()</th> <xsl:apply-templates/> </table> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="mynum"> <tr> <td><xsl:value-of select="@num"/></td> <td> <xsl:call-template name="convertSciToNumString"> <xsl:with-param name="myval" select="@num"/> </xsl:call-template> </td> <td><xsl:value-of select="number(@num)"/></td> </tr> </xsl:template> <xsl:include href="ConvertSciToNumString.xsl"/> </xsl:stylesheet> I have had Cocoon 1.8 (w/ Jakarta-Tomcat 3.1) running on my machine for about 6 months. When I put the files up there I get: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd";> <html><head><title>Output for web page</title></head><body><table align="center" border="1"><th>num</th><th>converted</th><th>number()</th> <tr><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>-2</td><td>-2</td><td>-2</td></tr> <tr><td>3E-3</td><td>3E-3</td><td>0.0030</td></tr> <tr><td>-2E-4</td><td>-2E-4</td><td>-0.00020</td></tr> <tr><td>.5E-3</td><td>.5E-3</td><td>0.00050</td></tr> <tr><td>.3E4</td><td>.3E4</td><td>3000</td></tr> <tr><td>.2E-4</td><td>.2E-4</td><td>0.000020</td></tr> <tr><td>-.6E3</td><td>-.6E3</td><td>-600</td></tr> <tr><td>-.6E-4</td><td>-.6E-4</td><td>-0.000060</td></tr> <tr><td>6.022E23</td><td>6.022E23</td><td>602200000000000000000000</td></tr> <tr><td>.312E1</td><td>.312E1</td><td>3.12</td></tr> <tr><td>312E-2</td><td>312E-2</td><td>3.12</td></tr> <tr><td>-0.312E1</td><td>-0.312E1</td><td>-3.12</td></tr> <tr><td>-312E-2</td><td>-312E-2</td><td>-3.12</td></tr> <tr><td>923.9E-1</td><td>923.9E-1</td><td>92.39</td></tr> <tr><td>1.625E-12</td><td>1.625E-12</td><td>0.000000000001625</td></tr> <tr><td>1.E-5</td><td>1.E-5</td><td>0.000010</td></tr> <tr><td>2.14160E-3</td><td>2.14160E-3</td><td>0.0021416</td></tr> </table></body></html> <!-- This page was served from cache in 1 milliseconds by Cocoon 1.8 --> Notice that my converted column does not work right... I can fix that by saying if it is a number() then value-of select="number($myval)", not a problem. But I just thought that this must mean that Cocoon has extended the number() function to take care of scientific notation. I was not sure whether to post this here or to the XSL list, but thought I'd try here first. Thanks for any help/comments. Sincerely, Michael Case -- Michael E. Case UC Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] (530) 754-7226 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
