Have a template in a common file.
define it at the top of your style sheet: <xsl:include
href="CommonFunctions.xsl" />

Call it using:

<xsl:call-template name="ConvertToDecimal">
	<xsl:with-param name="Number" select="@DOLLARAMT" />
</xsl:call-template>

And ConvertToDecimal will be:

<xsl:template name="ConvertToDecimal">
	<xsl:param name="Number" select="100" />
	<xsl:value-of select="format-number((number(substring($Number,2)))div 100,
'00.00')" />
</xsl:template>


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Haque,
Suraiya
Sent: 26 July 2001 14:35
To: 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject:  How to implement common functionality


	I have to do some text formatting in multiple XSL files using the
same format. I would like to define this once in a central file and reuse it
in the XSL files. Right now I have the formatting implemented for each
field.

	In my XML, 10.00 is specified as +000000001000
	and I format it to 10.00 by using

	<xsl:value-of
select="format-number((number(substring(@DOLLARAMT,2)))div 100, '00.00')"/>

	I would like to define the formatting command in a central place so
that I can do something like this:

	<xsl:value-of select="convertToDecimal(@DOLLARAMT)"/>

	Is there a way to do this? Can I do this in a css file?

	Thanks,
	Suraiya



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