Question

I parse an xml with my xslt and get the result as a xml.

i need to format numbers with apostrophe as delimiter for a tousand, million, etc…

eg: 1234567 = 1’234’567

now the problem is how do i get these apostrophes in there?

<xsl:value-of select="format-number(/path/to/number, '###'###'###'###')" />

this doesn’t work because the apostrophe itself is already delimiting the start of the format.

is there a simple solution to that (maybe escaping the apostrophe like in c#?

Answer 1

After some research we came up with this solution:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
     <xsl:decimal-format name='ch' grouping-separator="'" />
     <xsl:template match="/">
     <xsl:value-of select='format-number(/the/path/of/the/number, "###&apos;###&apos;###", "ch")'/>
     ...