Re: Numbers to Words

Hi Dave,

Check out Section 12.3 (Number to String Conversion Attributes) of the XSLT
2.0 working draft http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#convert

The main attribute is format. The default value for the format attribute is
1. The format attribute is split into a sequence of tokens where each token
is a maximal sequence of alphanumeric characters or a maximal sequence of
non-alphanumeric characters. Alphanumeric means any character that has a
Unicode category of Nd, Nl, No, Lu, Ll, Lt, Lm or Lo.

      A format token w generates numbers written as lower-case words, for
      example in English, one two three four ...
      A format token W generates numbers written as upper-case words, for
      example in English, ONE TWO THREE FOUR ...
      A format token Ww generates numbers written as title-case words, for
      example in English, One Two Three Four ...

So, no it isn't April 1st and yes, you did miss something :)

Nadia


                                                                                                                                     
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On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:13 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> This will be particularly easy in xslt2:
>
>  <xsl:stylesheet
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                                  version="2.0">
>
>   <xsl:output method="text" />
>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:number value="65314142" format="w"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
>  </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
> $ saxon8 words.xsl words.xsl
> sixty five million three hundred and fourteen thousand one hundred and
forty two

Is it April 1, or did I miss something?

David, could you | would you, expand please?




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Dave Pawson
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