Formatting the representation of scientific numbers in xsl

Question

I have the following value in my XML -1.8959581529998104E-4. I want to format this to the exact number that XSL should use to give me -0.000189595815299981.

format-number (-1.8959581529998104E-4, '0.000000; -0.000000') gives me NaN.

Any ideas?

Greetings

Andez

Answer 1

XSLT 1.0 does not support scientific notation.

This: number('-1.8959581529998104E-4')Result:NaN

This: number('-0.000189595815299981')Result:-0.000189595815299981

XSLT 2.0 supports scientific notation

This: number('-1.8959581529998104E-4')Result:-0.000189595815299981

EDIT : very simple XSLT 1.0 workaround:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="number[substring-after(.,'E')]">
        <xsl:variable name="vExponent" select="substring-after(.,'E')"/>
        <xsl:variable name="vMantissa" select="substring-before(.,'E')"/>
        <xsl:variable name="vFactor"
             select="substring('100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000',
                               1, substring($vExponent,2) + 1)"/>
        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="starts-with($vExponent,'-')">
                <xsl:value-of select="$vMantissa div $vFactor"/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="$vMantissa * $vFactor"/>
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

With this input:

<number>-1.8959581529998104E-4</number>

Output:

-0.00018959581529998104

Answer 2

user357812.

<xsl:template name="convertSciToNumString" >
    <xsl:param name="inputVal" select="0"/>
    <xsl:variable name="vExponent" select="substring-after($inputVal,'E')"/>
    <xsl:variable name="vMantissa" select="substring-before($inputVal,'E')"/>
    <xsl:variable name="vFactor"
         select="substring('100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000',
                           1, substring($vExponent,2) + 1)"/>
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="number($inputVal)=$inputVal">
            <xsl:value-of select="$inputVal"/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="starts-with($vExponent,'-')">
            <xsl:value-of select="format-number($vMantissa div $vFactor, '#0.#############')"/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-of select="format-number($vMantissa * $vFactor, '#0.#############')"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

:

<xsl:template match="X">
    <X>
        <xsl:call-template name="convertSciToNumString">
            <xsl:with-param name="inputVal" select="text()"/>
        </xsl:call-template>
    </X>    
</xsl:template>

.

Answer 3

:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" ... xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java">
...
<xsl:value-of select="format-number(java:java.lang.Double.parseDouble('1E-6'), '0.000')"/>

Answer 4

xsltproc, libxslt1.1 1.1.24 Linux:

XSLT 1.1 / , : -))

Answer 5

Moop user357812 vFactor .

vExponent ( "+"), vFactor . , , 1- vExponent / , , 2- . vMantissa , NaN.

vExponent ( "+"), vFactor . - 1- , vMantissa vFactor.

, : 2E-4, 2E + 4 2E4.

<xsl:template name="convertSciToNumString" >
    <xsl:param name="inputVal" select="0"/>
    <xsl:variable name="vMantissa" select="substring-before(., 'E')"/>
    <xsl:variable name="vExponent" select="substring-after(., 'E')"/>
    <xsl:variable name="vExponentAbs" select="translate($vExponent, '-', '')"/>
    <xsl:variable name="vFactor" select="substring('100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000', 1, substring($vExponentAbs, 1) + 1)"/>
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="number($inputVal)=$inputVal">
            <xsl:value-of select="$inputVal"/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="starts-with($vExponent,'-')">
            <xsl:value-of select="format-number($vMantissa div $vFactor, '#0.#############')"/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>         
            <xsl:value-of select="format-number($vMantissa * $vFactor, '#0.#############')"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>