> wouldn't number('abc1') return NaN 
Ami,
<xsl:value-of select="number(one) 
if you expected number('abc1') then it doesn't. you could use
translate(one.'abc','') to get rid of those letters, or
substring(one,4) to ignore the first three characters.

David

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