Re: entities in decimal-format/format-number

It outputs something weird, like "21031	o?=o?=036  026".
Probably, unsupported characters or kind of that.

On 20 April 2010 18:15, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When you say that something doesn't work, you need to say how it fails.
> Error message? Wrong results?
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jack.vosmerkin@xxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:jack.vosmerkin@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ?????? ??????????
>> Sent: 20 April 2010 15:08
>> To: xsl-list
>> Subject:  entities in decimal-format/format-number
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a problem with formatting numbers in xslt1 (libxslt).
>>
>> I'm trying to use custom grouping separator. And sometimes it works.
>> <xsl:decimal-format name="foo" grouping-separator="&#160;"/> ...
>> <xsl:value-of select="format-number(21031036025.8,
>> '#&#160;###','foo')"/>
>>
>> But when I use some other entities, it doesn't:
>> <xsl:decimal-format name="foo" grouping-separator="&#8201;"/> ...
>> <xsl:value-of select="format-number(21031036025.8,
>> '#&#8201;###','foo')"/>
>> (8201 is thin space)
>>
>> And I can't figure out why it doesn't sometimes.
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Mike.