FW: Number formatting in the XSLT standard

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For those of you working on the XSLT standard. What is the rationale
for letting format-number() use the localized decimal format syntax?

XSLT 1.1, section 12.3: "The format pattern string is in a localized
notation: the decimal-format determines what characters have a
special meaning in the pattern (with the exception of the quote
character, which is not localized)."

Personally I find this most annoying. The decimal-format language is
_different_ for different locales because of this (duh). And when I
just need to swap the meaning of ',' and '.' I have to go
modify every format-number()'s formatting string!


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