Request for approval 8015978: Incorrect transformation of XPath expression "string(-0)"

[Aleksej Efimov]

Hi,

This is a request to backport a JDK 8 fix for bug 8015978 to JDK 7u-dev.
The fix was already integrated into JDK 8.

The changes are identical to JDK 8 except one minor change: The call to 
new API "isFinite()" is removed from BasisLibrary.java.

JDK 7 webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aefimov/8015978/jdk7/webrev.0/ 
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eaefimov/8015978/jdk7/webrev.0/>
Bug:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8015978
JDK8 changesets:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/45a3584bfacf
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jaxp/rev/659828443145

Thanks,
Aleksej