<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="extensions" page="functions" subpage="format-number"/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: saxon:format-number()</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: saxon:format-number()"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>saxon:format-number()</h1> <p><b>saxon:format-number($value as xs:double, $picture as xs:string) as xs:string </b></p> <p><i>This function (in the Saxon namespace) is available in Saxon-EE only. The function is obsolescent since it is now available in the standard <code>fn:</code> namespace, whether you are using XSLT or XQuery.</i></p> <p>This function is identical to the two-argument version of the <code>format-number</code> function in XSLT 2.0, but in the Saxon namespace. It uses the default behavior of the XSLT function when there is no <code>xsl:decimal-format</code> declaration in the stylesheet, which means that it is not possible to change the characters used as the decimal point, grouping separator, and so on.</p> <p>For example, the call <code>saxon:format-number(123.4567, '0000.00')</code> produces the output <code>0123.46</code>.</p> <p>For full details, see the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/" class="bodylink">XSLT 2.0 specification</a>.</p> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="function.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>