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Re: [xsl] Implicit casting from double to float

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Well... I don't find it surprising that you can find a result that
differs from Java, the type systems are different so there will be
differences. 

However I can't actually verify that this should work in XSLT. (Without
thinking too hard, and it's probably just easier to mumble and get
Michael to point to the right bit of the spec:-)

xsl:variable uses function conversion rules, so we seem to arrive at
point 3 in (the third list in)
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-function-calls

> 3. For each numeric item in the atomic sequence that can be promoted to the
>    expected atomic type using numeric promotion as described in B.1 Type
>    Promotion, the promotion is done. 

so the question is, can we get from a double to a float?

B.1 Type Promotion

> A value of type xs:float (or any type derived by restriction from
> xs:float) can be promoted to the type xs:double 

so that's the wrong direction,


> A value of type xs:decimal (or any type derived by restriction from
> xs:decimal) can be promoted to either of the types xs:float or
> xs:double. The result of this promotion is created by casting the
> original value to the required type. This kind of promotion may cause
> loss of precision. 


so that's the right direction, but going from decimal to float (losing
precision) not double to float.



so, I think that numeric promotion doesn't convert a double to a float,
so the question is do they match anyway, and that question is answerd by
the  SequenceType matching  rules. I think the answer is no, as xsd:float
isn't derived from xsd:double.

David

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