RE: [xsl] XSLT and Hijri Dates

Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT and Hijri Dates
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:15:00 +0100
> One thing I have discovered recently is that
> Arabic support is pretty poor in most XSL tools. The one I am
> using for FO supports the characters, but writes them left to right.
>

Had some trouble with this in the XSLT spec itself. In section 12.3 where it
says

"A format token of &#x661; (Arabic-Indic digit one) generates the sequence Y!
then Y" then Y# ..."

I had to insert the word "then" between the numbers to stop them appearing in
descending order.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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