28514 2015-04-20 04:11:27 +0000 [QT3] format-integer-044 does not take minus-sign into account 2015-04-20 14:05:01 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XQuery 3 & XPath 3 Test Suite Recommendation PC Windows NT RESOLVED INVALID P2 normal --- 1 abel.braaksma oneil mike public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 119668 0 abel.braaksma 2015-04-20 04:11:27 +0000 This test tests format-integer(-5, 'Ww;o') to be equal to "-Fifth", but in words, this is "Minus Fifth". I think this ought to be changed to accommodate for this variant: <any-of> <assert-eq>'-Fifth'</assert-eq> <assert-eq>'Minus Fifth'</assert-eq> </any-of> 119672 1 mike 2015-04-20 07:57:46 +0000 This would require a spec change, and the spec change would create a backwards incompatibility. 119687 2 abel.braaksma 2015-04-20 13:42:51 +0000 Oh, my bad, I didn't find it in the spec under "w", "W" and "Ww", but now I see that there's a line saying: If the value of $value is negative, the rules below are applied to the absolute value of $value, and a minus sign is prepended to the result. It looks so odd. Anyway, it was not my intention to suggest a spec change, I thought the test was wrong. Apparently not. 119690 3 mike 2015-04-20 14:01:15 +0000 I think code that wants to handle negative numbers with format-integer will often apply format-integer to the absolute value, and then "do its own thing" to indicate that it is negative. For example "The temperature is " || format-integer(abs($N)) || " degrees " || (if ($N gt 0) then "above zero" else if ($N lt 0) then "below zero" else "". 119692 4 abel.braaksma 2015-04-20 14:05:01 +0000 Yes, that makes sense. Thanks.