MSDN: XmlConvert also provides methods that enable you to convert from a string to a .NET Framework data type and vice-versa. Locale settings are not taken into account during data conversion. The data types are based on the XML Schema (XSD) data types. The table found at Data Type Support between XML Schema (XSD) Types and .NET Framework Types describes the mapping between XML Schema (XSD) and .NET data types.
Morty -----Original Message----- From: Morten Abrahamsen Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] XmlConvert and Decimal bug I know! But the problem isn't the parser, it's the XmlSchema 'compliant' XmlConvert.ToString(decimal) function. I thought the whole point of the XmlConvert class was to provide XmlSchema compliant conversion functions. And as such, the XmlConvert.ToString(decimal) shouldn't write the exponential format in the first place... Am I wrong ? Morty -----Original Message----- From: Richard Birkby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] XmlConvert and Decimal bug The conversion calls dec=Decimal.Parse("5E-05", NumberStyles.AllowLeadingSign| NumberStyles.AllowDecimalPoint| NumberStyles.AllowLeadingWhite| NumberStyles.AllowTrailingWhite, NumberFormatInfo.InvariantInfo); which calls into native code via the Number class. It specifically disallows the NumberStyles.AllowExponent bitfield because the XML Schema datatypes spec does not allow exponents for Decimal types. http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal The spec allows up to 18 digits and no exponent. Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Morten Abrahamsen > Sent: 31 May 2002 11:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DOTNET] XmlConvert and Decimal bug > > > One would assume that the following would work: > > string decimalString = XmlConvert.ToString(0.00005M); > decimal dec = XmlConvert.ToDecimal(decimalString); > > However it throws a FormatException because the string conversion > results in an exponential format, which isn't permitted in the > ToDecimal parser. > > Is this a common bug, or is this related to some strange locale > settings... (it should be schema compliant and locale invariant > though..) > > Any thoughts ? > > Morty > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from > DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at > http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
