just because it's represented by a java double doesn't mean it has a fraction part. this is what the spec says a number should be: 3.5 Numbers
A number represents a floating-point number. A number can have any double-precision 64-bit format IEEE 754 value. On Wed, 22 May 2002, Tilly, Jesse wrote: > Does this make sense for a count function, though? I did not get from the > spec that all functions returned doubles. It would seem to me a count should > be a whole number and the framework is capable of this. > > What am I missing in understanding this? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:01 AM > > To: bob mcwhirter; Tilly, Jesse > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Jaxen] Re: Count function in Jaxen 1.0 > > > > > > At 8:30 AM -0400 5/22/02, bob mcwhirter wrote: > > > > >> We've been working with the Jaxen implementation of the > > XSLT functions for > > >> our project. During some of our tests we noticed double > > values where we > > >> expected integer values. We determined that the doubles > > were coming from the > > >> count() function. We count the number of HTML rows in a > > document. However, > > >> it seems strange that the number returned is a double. > > > > The reason is that XPath 1.0 only uses doubles. There are no integers > > in XPath. This is more of an XPath decision than a Jaxen decision. > > -- > > > > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > > | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | > > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > > | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | > > | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | > > | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | > > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > > | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | > > | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | > > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > Jaxen-interest mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Jaxen-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest
