When you say that something doesn't work, you need to say how it fails.
Error message? Wrong results?

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jack.vosmerkin@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:jack.vosmerkin@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ?????? ??????????
> Sent: 20 April 2010 15:08
> To: xsl-list
> Subject:  entities in decimal-format/format-number
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with formatting numbers in xslt1 (libxslt).
> 
> I'm trying to use custom grouping separator. And sometimes it works.
> <xsl:decimal-format name="foo" grouping-separator="&#160;"/> ...
> <xsl:value-of select="format-number(21031036025.8, 
> '#&#160;###','foo')"/>
> 
> But when I use some other entities, it doesn't:
> <xsl:decimal-format name="foo" grouping-separator="&#8201;"/> ...
> <xsl:value-of select="format-number(21031036025.8, 
> '#&#8201;###','foo')"/>
> (8201 is thin space)
> 
> And I can't figure out why it doesn't sometimes.
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Mike.