format-number round and negative

[Sam Prokop <sp...@4tek.de>]

Hi all,

i´ve got the following problem:

if i use format-number and use formatting-pattern ###.##0,0 
with this decimal-format definition:

<xsl:decimal-format name="standard" decimal-separator="," grouping-separator="." infinity="Infinity" minus-sign="-" NaN="NaN" percent="%" per-mille="&#x2030;" zero-digit="0" digit="#" pattern-separator=";"/>

i get -0,0 if the input-xml has the value -0.03, i expected 0,0 and 
i get -0,0 if the input-xml has the value -0.05, i expected -0,1

msxml does what i expect, but i won´t use that one.


So, is this behavior of xalan a bug or a feature? and is there a work-around?

Thanks in anticipation

Sam

Re: format-number round and negative

[ke...@us.ibm.com]

I think the expected behavior is the IEEE 754 round-to-nearest rule, which
I *think* says that if two equally good choices exist, the one closer to
positive infinity will be taken.

One classic workaround is to take absolute value, round, then restore the
sign...


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