You need to use xs:float or xs:double instead of xs:decimal to be able to use the 'e' or 'E' as the exponent separator.

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Kristian K1. nov 2017 13:18 kirjutas kuupäeval Marco Lettere <m.lettere@gmail.com>:
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> Hi all,
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> I thought of asking this in parallel of hacking my own parsing procedure
> ...
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> Is there a native way to parse scientific notation string into
> xs:decimal since a direct casting (xs:decimal("1e1")) is not allowed?
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> Thanks,
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> Marco.
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