Thanks - the ms:number seems to work.   We have been trying to avoid 
extensions, as we need to support  multiple parsers.
I don't seem to need to validate against a schema (yes it would be a good 
idea, but ...).
We are performing arithmetic operations (not sure what in this case) and 
were getting NaN.  Now works well,
Thanks again!

"Joe Fawcett" wrote:

> "darren@w..." <darren@w...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:B41E4F0B-C97F-452F-8220-1326DE921065@m......
> > I have an xml file:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <myspace>
> > <stuff>5.6</stuff>
> > <stuff>1.27E-2</stuff>
> > </myspace>
> >
> > I have a stylesheet:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> > xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
> >
> > <xsl:template match=".//stuff">
> > Value: <xsl:value-of select="number(.)"/>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> >
> > I expect the results:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > Value: 5.6
> > Value: 0.0127
> >
> > The results I get:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
> > Value: 5.6
> > Value: NaN
> >
> > The parser doesn't seem to support  exponential notation for numbers!
> > Is this true, or am I doing something wrong?
> > Is there a work around, as I have a lot of  data from excel spreadsheets
> > that use this notation, and my style sheets are not working well with
> it!!!
> >
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> No they are not recognised. You could use a Microosft extension, ms:number.
> Read more in sdk from msdn.com/xml. Sdk is a link on right hand side.
> Your use of path ".//stuff is also odd.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
> xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
> 
> <xsl:template match="/*/stuff"><!-- or //stuff -->
> Value: <xsl:value-of select="ms:number(.)"/>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Unfortunately for this to work I believe the xml must have been validated
> via an xml schema that declares the datatype of stuff to be a number.
> 
> If this is not possible then a second approach would be a JavaScript
> function to convert, again look at the examples in the sdk.
> 
> Not sure what exactly you need as output, do you want to eexpress the number
> always as just digits etc? I.e. no exponential symbol?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Joe (MVP - xml)
> 
> 
> 
>