Re: [xsl] Numbers to Words

Subject: Re: [xsl] Numbers to Words
From: Dave Pawson <davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:10:20 +0100
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:53 -0400, Nadia.Swaby@xxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Check out Section 12.3 (Number to String Conversion Attributes) of the XSLT
> 2.0 working draft http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#convert
> 
> The main attribute is format. The default value for the format attribute is
> 1. The format attribute is split into a sequence of tokens where each token
> is a maximal sequence of alphanumeric characters or a maximal sequence of
> non-alphanumeric characters. Alphanumeric means any character that has a
> Unicode category of Nd, Nl, No, Lu, Ll, Lt, Lm or Lo.
> 
>       A format token w generates numbers written as lower-case words, for
>       example in English, one two three four ...
>       A format token W generates numbers written as upper-case words, for
>       example in English, ONE TWO THREE FOUR ...
>       A format token Ww generates numbers written as title-case words, for
>       example in English, One Two Three Four ...
> 
> So, no it isn't April 1st and yes, you did miss something :)
> 
> Nadia

Thanks (I think :-) Nadia.

Yet another piece of the WD I hadn't read (and Mr C has. Often the case)

More reading for yours truly.

regards DaveP

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