I have got several examples of number formatting at:
http://zvon.vscht.cz:/HTMLonly/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html
under chapter title:
Numbers generation and formatting


"Emery, Ric" wrote:
> 
> Not sure about formatting dates.
> 
> Formatting numbers can be achieved with the format-number function of XSL.
> This function is described in section 14.3 of the latest XSL spec.
> 
> Here is an example that formats a variable to 2 decimal places.
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="format-number ($SOMENUMBER, '0.00')" />
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Senthil Vaiyapuri [mailto:senthil@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 8:26 AM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Formatting Numbers and Dates
> 
>   Howdy,
> 
>      Are there builtin ways (methods) available in XSL to format

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