RE: [xsl] format-number

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hello Friends,
> 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 .
> 
> Does anyone knows what am I doing wrong .
> 

Just write:

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

Attribute value templates are used to insert an XPath expression into an
attribute value. They aren't used to insert an XPath expression into a
string literal within another XPath expression.

sum(.) is a bit odd: sum() gives a total over a node-set, and "." is a
node-set containing exactly one node.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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