XPath:Functions:format-number

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Contents 1 Syntax 2 Arguments 3 Returns 4 Notes 5 Defined 6 Gecko support

The format-number function evaluates a number and returns a string representing the number in a given format.

[edit] Syntax

format-number( number , pattern [, decimal-format] )

[edit] Arguments

number

The number to be formatted

pattern

A string in the format of the JDK 1.1 DecimalFormat class. (The documentation for JDK 1.1 is not available online. Here is the Java SE 6 DecimalFormat.)

decimal-format (optional)

The name of an xsl:decimal-format element that defines the number format to be used. If omitted, the default decimal-format will be used.

[edit] Returns

A string representing the number in the new format.

[edit] Notes

This function is an XSLT-specific addition to XPath. It is not a part of the core XPath function library.

[edit] Defined

XSLT 1.0 12.3

[edit] Gecko support

Supported.