> Hi.
> 
> I want to use the function  format-number to to put a number 
> in a  money  format.  This works when the number is either 
> not signed or negatively signed. The XML we got from our 
> client has a "+" sign like this example:
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="format-number(+00003345351.89,'$#,###.00')"/>

XPath 1.0 doesn't allow a leading plus sign in a number. You can get rid
of it using translate($num, '+', '').
> 
> This won't work.  The same proble is when I use the function 
> sum() on a column that has positive values represented with  
> "+" signed numbers.
> 
> Any clues
> Thanks
> 
> Here is the definition of a positive number accoriding to the 
> w3c XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes specs. So according to these 
> standards an xml can have the "+" infront of a number. 

XPath 1.0 predates XML Schema: its authors did a good job, but
predicting the contents of XML Schema would have been nothing short of
miraculous.

XPath 2.0 fixes this.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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