Then you probably read it as a string and then depending on your locale 
setting you 
cast "2.25" to 2.25 or 225. I mean the actual text string in the XML is 
"<value>2.25</value>. In a German computer, the value read would be 225. I am 
trying to find out if thre is a way to tell the xml parser (msxml in this 
case) that the locale used in this particular xml file is English regardless 
of the fact that the system setting is German. 


"Roland Hall" wrote:

> "Ivan" wrote in message 
> news:45CD470F-B3AB-4410-9260-8AAA816ADE4A@m......
> : Recently I had some problems with MSXML misinterpretting numbers with
> : floating points - when I want to save something like 0.123456 it saves it 
> as
> : 123456.
> : It has to do with the locale - some European locales use "," as decimal
> : separator instead of period "." and this is when the problem happens - 
> looks
> : like msxml only understands the "." so if we switch back to English locale
> : the problem is gone.
> : Is there any other way to fix this problem besides changing the locale 
> back
> : to US English? Some of our customers are not willing to do this.
> 
> And if you pass it as a string instead of a floating point number, then 
> what?
> 
> -- 
> Roland Hall
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