June 2008
Intermediate to advanced
986 pages
27h 8m
English
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Formatting Decimal Numbers
We’ve already seen several ways of formatting decimal
numbers using <xsl:number>.
However, if we’re going to work with numbers, we’ll almost certainly
have to deal with decimals. XSLT defines the format-number() function and the <xsl:decimal-format> element to do just that. We’ll use <xsl:decimal-format> to define a pattern
for formatting numbers, and then we’ll use format-number() to apply a pattern to a
number.
This stylesheet has several examples of <xsl:decimal-format> and format-number():
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- decimal-format.xsl --> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <!-- This format has no name, so it's assumed to be the default. --> <xsl:decimal-format decimal-separator="," grouping-separator="."/> <xsl:decimal-format name="us_default"/> <xsl:decimal-format name="other_options" NaN="[not a number]" infinity="unfathomably huge"/> <xsl:decimal-format name="hash_mark" digit="!"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:text>
Tests of <xsl:decimal-format> and </xsl:text> <xsl:text>format-number():</xsl:text> <xsl:text>

 1. format-number(3728493.3882, </xsl:text> <xsl:text>'#.###,##') : </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-number(3728493.3882, '#.###,##')"/> <xsl:text>

 2. format-number(3728493.3882, </xsl:text> <xsl:text>'#,###.##', 'us_default') : </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-number(3728493.3882, '#,###.##', 'us_default')"/> ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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