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RE: [Q] Sum Function
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] [Q] Sum Function
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 17:11:25 -0000
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
>
> Total should be 16.37
>
> but,
>
> <xsl:value-of select="sum($BatchPayments/Amount)"/>
>
> calculates the value as 16.369999999999997
>
XPath 1.0 arithmetic is always floating point, so you're likely to get some
rounding errors from converting decimal to binary and back again. A usually
adequate answer is to display the result using format-number().
Mike Kay
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