format-number
The format-number
function evaluates a number and returns a string representing the number in a given format.
Syntax
format-number( number, pattern [,decimal-format] )
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.
Returns
A string representing the number in the new format.
Notes
This function is an XSLT-specific addition to XPath. It is not a part of the core XPath function library.
Defined
Gecko support
Supported.