Problem in SXLT spec.

[Christopher Gutteridge]

in http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-format-number
Seciont: 12.3 Number Formatting
Text: JDK 1.1 DecimalFormat

The link to
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/api/java.text.DecimalFormat.html
no longer works and without it the specification is unclear.

I know that there's XSLT 2.0 now, but many people are still using XSLT 1
for the next few years so we *really* need the documentation!

[Michael Kay]

Post by Christopher Gutteridge
in http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-format-number
Seciont: 12.3 Number Formatting
Text: JDK 1.1 DecimalFormat
The link to
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/api/java.text.DecimalFormat.html
no longer works and without it the specification is unclear.
I know that there's XSLT 2.0 now, but many people are still using XSLT
1 for the next few years so we *really* need the documentation!

Thanks for the comment.

The Working Group has no immediate plans to revisit the XSLT 1.0
specification or its errata (like everyone else, we are stretched for
resources and rely on volunteer labour), but I'll add the comment to the
list of "things that ought to be fixed" in case this situation changes.

Last time I looked, although the JDK 1.1 spec was no longer at the cited
location, it was still available somewhere. But that was before the
Oracle acquisition. It's an object lesson in the danger of relying on
the permanence of online publications. I wonder whether W3C specs are
being archived anywhere indepentently of W3C itself?

Michael Kay
Saxonica