format-number

Format a number

Description

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.

Parameters

Description

value:numeric()

picture:string()

decimal-format-name:string()

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