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Subject: RE: format-number() for a phone number?
From: "Cote, Stephane" <scote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 15:24:09 -0700

Title: RE: format-number() for a phone number?

Just use

        formatNumber(phonenumberhere,"(###)###-####");

I just tried it.

Stef

    -----Original Message-----
    From:   Mike Brown [SMTP:mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
    Sent:   Tuesday, May 25, 1999 2:33 PM
    To:     'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
    Subject:        format-number() for a phone number?

    I need to format North American phone numbers that are 10 digits, like:

    <phone>3035551212</phone>

    would become

    (303) 555-1212

    My understanding from looking at the list archives is that there is no
    consensus
    things like length(phone) and substring(phone,0,3) are not possible with
    XSLT at
    this time, due to unresolved issues about characters vs bytes.

    Is it possible to use the format-number() function to achieve this kind of
    formatting? I can't deduce how to use format-number() at all, really. The
    spec
    points to JDK documentation for DecimalFormat, but the example in that doc
    is
    not terribly helpful.

    Any help appreciated.



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