Re: [xsl] format-number

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2002-09-03 10:46 -0700, Charles Ohana wrote:
> I need to format a number with a dynamic format (is it possible first of all
> ?) .
> I'm doing the following
> <xsl:value-of select="format-number( sum(.), '{$fmt}' )" />
> and I get {$fmt}as output.
> I need to get the real sum formatted according to the variable $fmt .

<xsl:value-of select="format-number( sum(.), $fmt )" />

> Does anyone knows what am I doing wrong .

Only very few instructions support attribute value templates and 
<xsl:value-of> isn't one of them.

Fortunately the argument just needs a string and you have a string 
variable, so just pass the variable.

I hope this helps.

................ Ken

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