Re: [xsl] <xsl:decimal-format >

Subject: Re: [xsl] <xsl:decimal-format >
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:58:51 -0500
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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