- From: Igor Hersht <igorh@ca.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:33:06 -0500
- To: "Kay, Michael" <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Agree. Not that important (but seems to be good).
Igor Hersht
XSLT Development
IBM Canada Ltd., 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario L6G 1C7
Office D2-260, Phone (905)413-3240 ; FAX (905)413-4839
"Kay, Michael"
<Michael.Kay@soft To: Igor Hersht/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA,
wareag.com> <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
cc:
01/13/2004 02:47 Subject: RE: [XSLT2.0] Adding lang attribute to
PM decimal-format
>
> SUGGESTION 3:
> 16.4.1 Defining a Decimal Format
>
> Add attribute lang? = { nmtoken }.
> The rules for the attributes are the same as for
> this attributes in other elements (e.g. xsl:number).
> lang attribute should control default values for attributes:
> decimal-separator, grouping-separator, infinity minus-sign,
> NaN, percent, per-mille, zero-digit. (e.g. text
> "decimal-separator specifies the character used for the
> decimal-separator-sign; the default value is the period
> character (.)" should be replaced with decimal-separator
> specifies the character used for the decimal-separator-sign;
> the default value is default for a given language".
>
A personal response: I think this is of marginal benefit. I don't think
it's difficult for users to specify exactly what formatting they want,
and it gives better interoperability if they do so: how likely is it
that different processors will choose the same representation for "NaN"
in Italian?
Michael Kay
Received on Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:35:56 UTC