Silly me, the sample I included in the message is not what I was really using. Instead of <xsl:value-of select="sum(tax_item/amount)"/> I was really using <xsl:number value="sum(tax_item/amount)"/>. The "value-of" does seem to work better - thanks! I still need to include your suggestion for the "format-number", however if I use #### after the decimal as you suggest then trailing zeroes are omitted. So instead I have put in 0.00 and that seems to do the trick. -Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramin Firoozye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:24 AM Subject: RE: xslt and number formats
> Hi Brian, > > I tried your code in Xalan (C and J) and MSXML and got '2.79' (with the > digits after decimal point intact). The XSLT spec says that numbers are kept > in double format internally so you shouldn't be getting any truncation loss > as a result of doing math. The 'sum' function is also supposed to keep > numbers in their original format. The only culprit may be the xsl:value-of > instruction (although on my system, it's working fine). You might want to > try to force a format using something like: > > <xsl:value-of select="format-number(sum(tax_item/amount), > '########.#########')" /> > > The '#' characters default to the formatting scheme defined in the JDK 1.1 > java.text.DecimalFormat class > <http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/api/java.text.DecimalFormat.html> > . > > Hope this helps, > Ramin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
