|Would it be posible to define special picture parameters for the date
and time formatting methods such as "long" "medium" "short". The XSL
processor can use this in combination with the language and country
parameters to produce a localized format for a particular locale.
An example of this is the java class java.util.text.DateFormat which can
produce DateFormats based on the styles DateFormat.LONG,||
DateFormat.||MEDIUM,|| DateFormat.||SHORT and a java.util.Locale which
can be constructed from the language and country.
Another example is C#'s String.Format with D,d,T,t,F,f for long and
short date, time, date and time.
Another example is in vb with DateFormat Enumeration's ||vbLongDate,
||vbShortDate, ||vbLongTime and ||vbShortTime.
This will allow authors of style sheets to format dates and times based
on a users preferred formats and not have to hard code formats in
stylesheets.
A similar thing could be done with number formats.
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