RE: zero-digit

XSLT simply refers to the JDK 1.1 spec in this area, and I for one find that
spec extremely fuzzy. But from experiment (Saxon simply uses the JDK
DecimalFormat class)

with <xsl:decimal-format zero-digit="a"/>

<xsl:value-of select="format-number(123.45, 'aaa.aa')"/>

produces

bcd.ef

which suggests that zero-digit does affect the digits used in the output as
well as those used in the format pattern.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clapham, Paul [mailto:pclapham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 November 2000 22:05
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: zero-digit
> 
> 
> I'm no XML expert, and I haven't inspected the XML spec in 
> any detail, but
> from what I read in Michael Kay's XSLT book it appears to me 
> that I should
> be able to use for example <xsl:decimal-format ... 
> digit-zero="#x0E50" ...>,
> where x0E50 is the Unicode character for "Thai Digit Zero", 
> and expect the
> resulting output to be rendered in Thai digits.  True, that 
> isn't supported
> by Java's DecimalFormat class; is there some other way in 
> Java of persuading
> DecimalFormat to produce Thai digits?
> 
> PC2
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: November 30, 2000 08:09
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: xsl-editors@xxxxxx
> Subject: zero-digit
> 
> 
> It strikes me that the text describing the zero-digit attribute of 
> the xsl:decimal-format element in the XSLT 1.0 spec may be wrong. 
> What is stated in Section 12.3 is:
> 
> zero-digit specifies the character used as the digit zero; the 
> default value is the digit zero (0)
> 
> The issues with this:
> 
> 1. Why can we specify 0 but not 1 through 9?
> 
> 2. Changing the character used for 0 is not allowed by the 
> java.text.DecimalFormat class after which format-number and 
> xsl:decimal-format is modeled. ()
> 
> <snip/>
> 
> 
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