zero after decimal point dropped when no number before decimal point, .06 cents becomes .60 cents

Hi rcheney:

What are you using for your parser?  I passed the above numbers and stylesheet through Xalan, and it returns the correct results.



-Xikilm

I am using Altova, the "XML Spy" parser.

Just did a quick search and found this:

http://www.altova.com/Fixed_Defects.html
3573 | XSLT format-number removes leading 0 from decimal part of value | Spy Ent | AltovaXSLT

Sounds like its a known problem that is fixed in "Release 3".  HTH.


-Xikilm

It is a known problem and it was supposedly fixed in release 3 but it still doesn't seem to always work correctly... I suggest just writing an ugly little hack which check if the value starts with either 0 or '.' and then after formatting just selecting the value of the first part (before the '.') + a '.0' and then the value after the '.'. Quite nasty but successful.

You are right.  They either didn't fix it, or it was working correctly and they broke it.  Anyway I agree the nasty hack is the way to go.  Could I trouble you for a little help or just point me in the right direction.  I started the hack by finding the decimal point and zero like you said <xsl:when test="contains(number(.),'.0')">  but how do I split the number and deal with the before and after the decimal point parts?

<xsl:template match="value">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test=".!=''">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="number(.)=0">0</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="number(.)=number(.)">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains(number(.),'.0')">

Here I find the decimal point zero but how do I split the before and after and format separately??

</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:value-of select="format-number(.,'###,##0.0###')"/></xsl:when>

I think I need to make a parameter and then create the before and after variables.

<xsl:param name="numwithdecimal" select="number(.)"/>
<xsl:variable name="beforedecimal" select="substring-before(numwithdecimal, '.')"/>
<xsl:variable name="afterdecimal" select="substring-before(substring-after(numwithdecimal, '.'),'.')"/>

and then (after formatting the separate pieces) put the result back together like below

<xsl:when test="contains(number(.),'.0')">
<xsl:value-of select="beforedecimal"/> AND <xsl:value-of select="afterdecimal"/>

    How do I format the separate pieces?

Thanks that looks great.  I haven't had time to test it yet but it gets me close enough so I can tweak it, if necessary.   A big thanks to wearu and  Xikilm.

When I run ".06" through it returns a "NaN.06".  Not sure if you're having similar problems with your parser.  If so, you can fix it with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
    <xsl:decimal-format name="test" NaN="0"/>
    <xsl:template match="value">
<xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test=".!=''">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="number(.)=number(.)">
         <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="starts-with(.,'.') or starts-with(.,'0')">
                  <xsl:value-of select="format-number(number(substring-before(.,'.')),'###,###','test')"/>.0<xsl:value-of select="format-number(number(substring-after(.,'.')),'##')"/>
             </xsl:when>
             <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="format-number(.,'###,##0.0###')"/>
             </xsl:otherwise>
         </xsl:choose>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="." />
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>0</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


-Xikilm