RE: [xsl] xsl:number problem

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charlene,

At 04:03 PM 6/18/2003, you wrote:
> I post the xml string to a StreamGenerator in Cocoon and use gnumeric and 
> xsl to convert the xml string to be displayed in Excel in a new browser.

It's this magic step that you need to look at. Excel does not merely 
"display" an "xml string": it processes some form of input (possibly XML 
input). In what form is the XML relayed as output from the XSLT transform 
into Excel? Is it serialized (and written as an XML file), and if so where, 
and if not, is there any way to serialize it?

If you can't inspect your output directly in some fashion (before another 
tool does its devilish thing with it) then how can you possibly debug the 
transform? (BTW -- hint -- there's currently a very useful thread going on 
about the best books to learn XSLT from. :-)

There must be a way to look at the output before it gets all the way 
through to the the spreadsheet.

Cheers,
Wendell

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