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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [xslt] xsl:number format="{$...}"
/ Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> was heard to say: | In message <3B4F46CB.25CA8BCD@mail1.stofanet.dk> xslt@gnome.org writes: | > Sebastian Rahtz wrote: | > | > > <xsl:number format="{$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. The spec says: <!-- Category: instruction --> <xsl:number level = "single" | "multiple" | "any" count = pattern from = pattern value = number-expression format = { string } lang = { nmtoken } letter-value = { "alphabetic" | "traditional" } grouping-separator = { char } grouping-size = { number } /> Which says that the format attribute is an attribute value template, so {$Format} should work fine. (Though, I admit, I don't recall seeing the beginning of this thread, so I'm not sure what the problem is.) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Even while a thing is in the act http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | of coming into existence, some Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | part of it has already ceased to | be.--Marcus Aurelius
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