RE: <xsl:decimal-format >

Good idea thanks..

Im creating a file flat, whose destination is a mainframe, hence the 
strange number format ..

The zero-width character plus a translate() option should work for 
me - I will try now.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of G. 
Ken
Holman
Sent: 13 November 2002 14:59
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] <xsl:decimal-format >


At 2002-11-13 14:39 +0000, Jonathan Jenkins wrote:
> I have an application where I need to use a decimal format, with both 
> the grouping-separator AND the decimal-separator attributes set to the
> empty string. This causes the following exception using Xalan.
>
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: An XSLT attribute of type 
> T_CHAR must be only 1 character!
>
> Looking at the definition for this element - I can understand why I get
> the exception.
>
> My question is - can I achieve the above functionality without writing 
> a java extension ?
If this is for display purposes, have you considered using a zero-width 
character?  It exists as a character, but it has no presentation.

Candidates include &#xfeff (zero width no-break space; a.k.a. byte order

mark) and &#x200e; (left-to-right mark).

This is not viable on its own if you just want the character removed.
To 
use it and then remove it, you could consider a combination of defining
the 
above characters and then doing a translate( format-number( args ), 
'#&xfeff', '' ) in order to remove the characters that otherwise
wouldn't 
have shown up in the formatted string.

I hope this helps.

................. Ken


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