Thanks!
That's what I was looking for....

-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:42 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  format-number


At 2003-02-26 16:30 -0500, Michael Semcheski wrote:
>I believe the poster was looking for information on whether a value 
>passed to format-number() that is not a number could be made to return 
>something other than NaN.
>
>I would be interested if anyone could comment.

If that is truly what the poster was asking for, that is what 
<xsl:decimal-format> is for.  An example is below.

I hope this helps.

................ Ken

T:\ftemp>type semcheski.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                 version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:decimal-format name="michael" NaN="not a nice number"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
   A:  <xsl:value-of select="format-number( 1.23, '#.000', 'michael' )"/>
   B:  <xsl:value-of select="format-number( 'ab', '#.000', 'michael' )"/>
   C:  <xsl:value-of select="format-number( 2.34, '#.000', 'michael' )"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>saxon semcheski.xsl semcheski.xsl

   A:  1.230
   B:  not a nice number
   C:  2.340
T:\ftemp>



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