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Good idea thanks.. Im creating a file flat, whose destination is a mainframe, hence the strange number format .. The zero-width character plus a translate() option should work for me - I will try now. -----Original Message----- From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of G. Ken Holman Sent: 13 November 2002 14:59 To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: <xsl:decimal-format > At 2002-11-13 14:39 +0000, Jonathan Jenkins wrote: >I have an application where I need to use a decimal format, with both >the grouping-separator AND the decimal-separator attributes set to the >empty string. This causes the following exception using Xalan. > >javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: An XSLT attribute of type >T_CHAR must be only 1 character! > >Looking at the definition for this element - I can understand why I get >the exception. > >My question is - can I achieve the above functionality without writing >a java extension ? If this is for display purposes, have you considered using a zero-width character? It exists as a character, but it has no presentation. Candidates include  (zero width no-break space; a.k.a. byte order mark) and ‎ (left-to-right mark). This is not viable on its own if you just want the character removed. To use it and then remove it, you could consider a combination of defining the above characters and then doing a translate( format-number( args ), '#&xfeff', '' ) in order to remove the characters that otherwise wouldn't have shown up in the formatted string. I hope this helps. ................. Ken -- Upcoming hands-on in-depth XSLT/XPath and/or XSL-FO: - North America: Feb 3 - Feb 7,2003 G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-10-1 Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Next conference training: 2002-12-08,03-03,06 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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