Hi, 
Thanks for your comments. Basically (Simplified) it looks like this (VB 
sample): 
    Dim dom As New MSXML2.DOMDocument
    Dim val As Double
    'the xmlfile is <value>2.25</value>    
    dom.Load "C:\Code\Misc\xmlparser\value.xml"
    val = CDbl(dom.Text) 'this returns 225 if the Decimal separator is (,) 
and the group separator is (.)
    To me the question is is there any way in a pure XML to specify the type 
and maybe the used decimal separator... 


"Martin Honnen" wrote:

> 
> 
> Ivan wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> Can you show us exactly in what way you use MSXML then that problems 
> occurs? Are you using DOM or XSLT? Show us the relevant code, relevant 
> XML input and output.
> I am guessing that you have for instance
>    <data>0.123456</data>
> in some XML input but you need to show what you do then with MSXML when 
> you say "saves it as 12345".
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Martin Honnen
> 	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
>