Hello

I have a big problem with formating a result of a SUM function. The result shouldn’t contain ‘E’ character.

let $z:=sum(input()/docs/floatvalue)
return $z

It gives for example: 123.45E4

how can I avoid such a situation and obtain a result like XXX.XX.

thanks in advance

please… any suggestions?

This is the way that Tamino prints large numbers (or doubles?), so I don’t think this problem has anything in particular to do with the sum() function. I don’t see any functions in tamino for formatting numbers, but you could probably use a stylesheet (XSL-FO) to process Tamino’s output into the form you want.

Bill

Hi,

try

declare namespace xs=“XML Schema”
let $z:=sum(input()/docs/floatvalue)
return xs:integer($z)

regards

Harald

This is a known gap in the current XQuery specs (which may or may not get filled - we’re having great trouble getting agreement in this area).

There’s no format-number capability in XQuery, but you can convert to an integer or decimal which will give you a more acceptable display. Or, of course, you can render the output through XSLT.

Michael Kay

Thanks you for all your answers

The information that it’s “a gap in current xquery specification” satisfies my expectations The worst situation is when I don’t know the solution that really exists.

I couldn’t use a stylesheet because I prepared a mechanism for different reports managed by one algoritm and XQuery is built “on fly”… so I don’t know a document structure… But it’s a more complex problem…

By the way do anybody explain me which function in XSLT can change this number format to normal double. Unfortunatelly format-number interprets this as a NaN (Not a Number).

Once again THANKS

Martka

I have another way of doing this.

Try inside the sum, doing the next:

1. Multiply * 100
2. Convert to integer
3. Divide / 100.