Re: format-number() for a phone number?

You don't need to go to java extensions to do this, you can do it within
XSLT. the following inserts - into strings of digits, you should be able
to modify it easily enough to insert () as well.

David

<xsl:stylesheet 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
  result-ns="">

<xsl:template  match="ssn">
  <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
   <xsl:param name="count" expr="1"/>
   <xsl:param name="left" expr="."/>
 </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="ssn-dash" >
  <xsl:param-variable name="count"/>
  <xsl:param-variable name="left"/>
  <xsl:if test="($count=4) or ($count=6)">-</xsl:if>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$count=6">
      <xsl:value-of select="$left"/>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="starts-with($left,'0')">
      <xsl:text>0</xsl:text>
      <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
        <xsl:param name="count" expr="$count+1"/>
        <xsl:param name="left" expr="substring-after($left,'0')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="starts-with($left,'1')">
      <xsl:text>1</xsl:text>
      <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
        <xsl:param name="count" expr="$count+1"/>
        <xsl:param name="left" expr="substring-after($left,'1')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="starts-with($left,'2')">
      <xsl:text>2</xsl:text>
      <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
        <xsl:param name="count" expr="$count+1"/>
        <xsl:param name="left" expr="substring-after($left,'2')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="starts-with($left,'3')">
      <xsl:text>3</xsl:text>
      <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
        <xsl:param name="count" expr="$count+1"/>
        <xsl:param name="left" expr="substring-after($left,'3')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="starts-with($left,'4')">
      <xsl:text>4</xsl:text>
      <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
        <xsl:param name="count" expr="$count+1"/>
        <xsl:param name="left" expr="substring-after($left,'4')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="starts-with($left,'5')">
      <xsl:text>5</xsl:text>
      <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
        <xsl:param name="count" expr="$count+1"/>
        <xsl:param name="left" expr="substring-after($left,'5')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="starts-with($left,'6')">
      <xsl:text>6</xsl:text>
      <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
        <xsl:param name="count" expr="$count+1"/>
        <xsl:param name="left" expr="substring-after($left,'6')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="starts-with($left,'7')">
      <xsl:text>7</xsl:text>
      <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
        <xsl:param name="count" expr="$count+1"/>
        <xsl:param name="left" expr="substring-after($left,'7')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="starts-with($left,'8')">
      <xsl:text>8</xsl:text>
      <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
        <xsl:param name="count" expr="$count+1"/>
        <xsl:param name="left" expr="substring-after($left,'8')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="starts-with($left,'9')">
      <xsl:text>9</xsl:text>
      <xsl:call-template name="ssn-dash">
        <xsl:param name="count" expr="$count+1"/>
        <xsl:param name="left" expr="substring-after($left,'9')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


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