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I am current using format-number($node, '#,##0.00') for formatting currency. We are now implementing foreign currencies into our application. For every transaction, I have an element, CurrencyCode, which contains the ISO currencyCode and an attribute @minor_unit which tells me how many digits follow the decimal seperator. My question is how I can dynamically build the formatting string. I was reading this morning in the March 2002 issue of MSDN magazine about how XSLT is a "Functional programming language", and therefore xsl:variable entities are "not really variables, rather runtime-assigned constants" because once they are assigned, the values cannot be changed. So, this lead me to start thinking about how I could wrap an xsl:for-each with the xsl:variable element to produce my output. What I don't know if how to obtain functionality like: for(i=0;i<=@minor_unit;i++){ ... }; I do not want to use an enbedded JScript solution because I want the XSL to be portable (namely between MSXML and Xalan). So, how would I construct the @select attribute in the xsl:for-each to just loop a predetermined number of times? -- David B. Bitton david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.codenoevil.com Diversa ab illis virtute valemus. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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