Number formatting in the XSLT standard from Christian Sunesson on 2001-07-24 (xsl-editors@w3.org from July to September 2001)

From: Christian Sunesson <christian@codesense.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 03:50:48 -0400 (EDT)
To: <xsl-editors@w3.org>
Message-ID: <EKELLKOKBHIOJDIGAIKBIEDJCBAA.christian@codesense.com>

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What is the rationale for letting format-number() use the localized
decimal format syntax?

XSLT 1.1, section 12.3: "The format pattern string is in a localized
notation: the decimal-format determines what characters have a
special meaning in the pattern (with the exception of the quote
character, which is not localized)."

Personally I find this most annoying. The decimal-format language is
_different_ for different locales because of this (duh). And when I
just need to swap the meaning of ',' and '.' I have to go
modify every format-number()'s formatting string!

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