Hi Spencer,
I just had a peek in Michael Key's excellent reference (XSLT 2.0
Programmer's Reference 3rd Ed., Wrox Press). It says, literally (quote):
"New options have been added in XSLT 2.0 for formatting numbers as words
(so you can output «Chapter Three») and as ordinal numbers (so you can
output «Fit the First» or «3rd Act»)". This implies using XSLT 2.0 for
doing so (but you didn't specify if you use 2.0 or 1.0).
The right syntax would become something like:
<xsl:number format="1" ordinal="yes" />
and produces output as such: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th etc.
I am not sure how well the implementation is of this part, I haven't
tried it myself.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Abel Braaksma
http://abelleba.metacarpus.com
Spencer Tickner wrote:
Hi List,
Thanks in advance for the help. I'm wondering if there's an elegant
way to format position() like:
1st 2nd 3rd and so on. I've looked through google for a format that
works with xsl:number, but haven't been able to find anything. I know
I could always do a long <xsl:choose> statement, but it feels wrong.
Anyway here's some samples
XML
<root>
<num>foo</num>
<num>bar</num>
</root>
Output
<root>
<num>1st</num>
<num>2nd</num>
</root>
Cheers,
Spencer
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