DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [xslt] xsl:number format="{$...}"

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

In message <3B4F46CB.25CA8BCD@mail1.stofanet.dk> xslt@gnome.org writes:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 
> >       <xsl:number format="{$Format}"/>xxx
> [...]
> > I presume this is a simple oversight? or is it a confusion in the spec?
> 
> Neither. The spec says that 'format = string', not 'format = string-expression'
> which would be necessary for the above to work.

All the other implementations make it work, though. Are you _sure_ about this? it is madness if you cannot parameterize things like that.

Sebastian