Formatting scientific number representation in xsl

Question

I have the following value in my XML -1.8959581529998104E-4. I want to format this to the exact number it should be using XSL to give me -0.000189595815299981.

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Answer 1

XSLT 1.0 does not have support for scientific notation.

This: number('-1.8959581529998104E-4') Result: NaN

This: number('-0.000189595815299981') Result: -0.000189595815299981

XSLT 2.0 has support for scientific notation

This: number('-1.8959581529998104E-4') Result: -0.000189595815299981

EDIT: A very simple XSLT 1.0 workaround:

With this input:

-1.8959581529998104E-4

Output:

-0.00018959581529998104