Re: [xsl] Saxon Div Issue

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> THe problem is , I dont know what will come in the $num. It is an
> xpath. It comes from an XML element.
>
> SO sometimes, the element contains 988, and sometimes it contains 98.8
> .. so my pseudo code actually is :"
>
> $num = /xpath/num
> var result = $num div 100
>
> I wouldn't know if it will be a double that I will be a decimal.

But you can define

  <xsl:variable name="num" select="xs:decimal(/xpath/num)"/>

to make sure computation is done with xs:decimal and not with xs:double. 
Or show us the context and the real code, I am not sure why you post 
some pseudo code instead of XSLT and XPath anyway.