- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:44:21 +0700
- To: Michael Holder <holderm@tusc.com>
- CC: xsl-editors@w3.org
If you don't want thousand separators, then all you have to do is not specify a grouping-separator attribute. > Michael Holder wrote: > > I think it would be a good idea if the next recomendation specified > how to handel a special case for the xsl:number attributes > grouping-separator and grouping-size. > > In my application I wanted to produce numbers that are integers with > no separator character (so that thousands would not be separated by a > comma for example). In order to do this I had to set > grouping-separator=" " and grouping-size="10000" which will be > sufficient for very lagre integers; much larger than the application > will ever encounter. However I think it would be better if > grouping-separator="" (a null string) were sepcifically allowed as a > means of turning "commas" off. The xalan parser for example > (www.xml.apache.org/) gives a lot of java exceptions and can't handle > it. Also, if grouping-size="0" were specified to mean that "commas" > or whatever were turned off that would be another good way to do it (I > would allow both methods). > > Since the values for grouping-separator and grouping-size could be a > data driven parameter into a template or stylesheet it would be a good > idea to make it a bit more robust for this kind of situation. > > I hope this idea was helpful and please let me know what you think of > it. I look forward to hearing from you. > > - Mike
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