Re: [xsl] format-number underspecified (Was: XSLT 1.1 comments from Steve Muench)

["Steve Muench" <Steve dot Muench at oracle dot com>]

Uche,

| Jeremy and I are good C programmers.  I have about a decade of experience 
| in the language.

I surely intended no insult on your programming experience or skill with
my previous comment.

| I am telling you that with my own fingers 
| I struggled with format-number() in C to put together an efficient 
| implementation for 4Suite.

I fully understand.

| they will do very well to consider that few 
| open-source authors have the resources of Oracle.

No considerations about the resources of Oracle figured
into the WG's decision to describe format-number() as it
came to be described in the spec. Good or bad, it's part
of the rec. We can learn from your feedback to try and
not duplicate the experience.

______________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager
BC4J & XSQL Servlet Development Teams, Oracle Rep to XSL WG
Author "Building Oracle XML Applications", O'Reilly
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp/



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