This helps, thanks.
Manfred

On 8/23/05, andrew welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've done this with xslt 1.0 (awfull, but works), but with
> > all the possibilities of 2.0 I'm a bit lost how to do this:
> >
> > input      output
> > 6               06
> > 16             16
> > (2)             02
> > (23)           23
> > otherwise   00
>
> Couldn't you use translate and format-number in a choose/when? eg:
>
> select="format-number(translate(input,'()',''),'00')"
>
> I suppose you could replace the choose/when with 2.0's if-then-else,
> but otherwise 1.0 isn't too verbose.
>
> cheers
> andrew