The XPath data model doesn't accept scientific notation for numbers, so a value with E in it is Not A Number. Sorry, but that's what the spec gives us.
______________________________________ Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more. "The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
