RE: Removing leading zeros

Wendell,

That would return a number with all zeros stripped. I think what the
original poster wanted is something which would strip the zeros preceding
the no.

try this,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:call-template name="stripzeros">
		<xsl:with-param name="amount" select="//value"/>
	</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="stripzeros">
	<xsl:param name="amount"/>
	<xsl:number value="$amount"></xsl:number>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Hope this helps.

Regards
Sudhakar


-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:19 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Removing leading zeros 


Nischal,

Try the XPath function number($string) in your XSLT and see if it does what 
you want. Since it turns any XPath object into a number, the leading zeros 
won't appear.

If you need your number to be a string again (and you need to force it: for 
most purposes it's unnecessary since XSLT will make the number a string 
when it's passed and a string argument is required), try 
string(number($string)). You won't get your leading zeros back.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 06:58 PM 1/24/2003, you wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I have a Java function which removes leading zeros
>from a given string value and returns me the number.
>
>Eg.
>
>000125000 -- 125000
>0012300  -- 12300
>01234 -- 1234
>
>public static String removeLeadingZeros(String str)
>         {
>                 if (str == null)
>                 {
>                         return null;
>                 }
>                 char[] chars = str.toCharArray();
>                 int index = 0;
>                 for (; index < str.length(); index++)
>                 {
>                         if (chars[index] != '0')
>                         {
>                                 break;
>                         }
>                 }
>                 return (index == 0) ? str : str.substring(index);
>         }
>
>Can someone help me build something like this in XSL.
>I dont mean you to write for the script, but atleast
>help me in taking thru what I have to do to get to
>this.
>
>Appreciate your time.
>
>Thanks
>Nischal
>
>
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