RE: [xsl] Format Phone number

Subject: RE: [xsl] Format Phone number
From: Owen Rees <owen_rees@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:47:52 +0000
--On Monday, December 21, 2009 10:27:50 +0000 Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A phone number should not really be treated as a number: leading zeroes
are significant, and arithmetic operations are meaningless. It's really
just a string whose component characters happen to be digits.

The first character of a phone number can be a '+'. Unlike a conventional numeric context, omitting the '+' if it should be there or adding it if it should not makes a big difference.


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