Question

We’re working on a web page that should be able to display prices such that spaces are the grouping separators and commas are the decimal separators. For example, the value 1234567.89 should display as 1 234 567,89. (We’re actually using   so we get a non-breaking space.)

This seems like the right XSL to do it, and it almost works, but I get a ‘.’ character after the rest of it. So I end up with '1 234 567,89.' instead of '1 234 567,89'.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>  <xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform' xmlns:fo='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format' xmlns:msxsl='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt'  xmlns:hsi='http://www.myfakecompany.com/fakey'  extension-element-prefixes='msxsl hsi'>      <xsl:decimal-format name='euro'          decimal-separator=','          grouping-separator='&#160;'/>      <xsl:template match='/'>      <xsl:value-of select='format-number(1234567.89, '#&#160;###.##;(#&#160;###.##)', 'euro')'/>      </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The format string is applied after the decimal separator is set, so you need to change it to:

'# ###,##;(# ###,##)' 

I.e. with commas instead of periods.