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January 4, 2002 - Specifying the Number Formatting Scheme in XSLT

Yehuda Shiran January 4, 2002
Specifying the Number Formatting Scheme in XSLT
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Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The XSLT file supports formatting of numerical XML data. You use the following method:

format-number(@dvds_rented, "###,###");
The peculiar behavior of the browser is that it picks up the number of "#" signs to the right of the comma as the determining distance between commas in the formatted data. The example above dictates that the first comma will be placed to the left of the third right most digit, then to the left of the sixth right most digit, etc. The number 19761247, for example, will be formatted as 19,761,247. Similarly, the following line of XSL code:

format-number(@dvds_rented, "####,##");
will put a comma every two digits. For the above example, you'll get 19,76,12,47.