Re: Formatting numbers

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:47:18 +0200
Zak McGregor <zak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I need to get numbers in a format that would be suitable for currency
> (eg:
> 5.00 or 3.50 or 1.99 etc), which is simple enough, but I am using
> Sablotron 0.51 which lists format-number() as currently unimplemented.
> Any
> kind peeps out there with an idea of how I could acieve the same effect
> please?
> 
Well, I have a solution, but it isn't pretty...

...

     <xsl:call-template name="number-pad">
     <xsl:with-param name="number-to-format" select="floor(amount*100+0.5)
div 100"/>
     </xsl:call-template>

...

<xsl:template name="number-pad">
<xsl:param name="number-to-format" />
  <xsl:variable name="zpad"
select="string-length(substring-after($number-to-format,'.'))" />
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$zpad=0"><xsl:value-of
select="concat($number-to-format,'.00')"/></xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$zpad=1"><xsl:value-of
select="concat($number-to-format,'0')"/></xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of
select="$number-to-format"/></xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

...

I hope this helps someone else out there...

Cheers

Zak

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