.. _format-number:

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format-number
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Format a number

Description
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The fn:format-number function formats $value as a string using the picture 
string specified by $picture and $decimal-format-name or the default 
decimal-format, if there is no $decimal-format-name argument. The syntax of the 
picture string is described in section 16.4.2 of the XSLT 2.0 recommendation. 
Note: this is an XSLT-only function; it is not available in XQuery or XPath.

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   * - **Parameters**
     - **Description**
   * - value:numeric()
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   * - picture:string()
     - 
   * - decimal-format-name:string()
     - 

See Also
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* :ref:`functx_pad-integer-to-length`.