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  (zero width no-break space; a.k.a. byte order
mark) and ‎ (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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