(: Hello I have a hopefully not too silly question ... Is there an easy way to remove the exponent notation and return 30000201_30000000 without working out where the E is in the parts and padding zeros ====> <a> <d>3.0000201E7_3.0E7</d> </a> :) declare function local:sumVec($a,$opt){ let $a := <x>{for $w at $pos in $a return for $v at $pos in tokenize(xs:string($w),"_") return element {'a'} { (attribute {'pos'} {$pos}, try {xs:float($v)} catch * {0} )} }</x> let $b := string-join(for $w in distinct-values($a//@pos) return if ($opt=0) then sum($a/a[@pos=$w]) ,"_") return $b };

let $a := '' return <a>

<d>{local:sumVec(('10000001_10000000','10000000_10000000','10000000_10000000','100_',100),0)}</d> </a>