Number formatting
Format-number function
Using the format-number() function, numeric values can be formatted as required. The first parameter is the string containing the number to be formatted. The second parameter is a template to be used to format this number.
In the following example, the template ensures that the price has two digits after the decimal point:
<price val="3.5"/> Price: <value-of select="format-number(@val, '0.00')"/>.
3.50
The template may contain a number of significant symbols. As indicated above, '0' indicates that a digit must appear at this position, and the '.' symbol indicates the position of the decimal point. In addition, the '#' symbol indicates the position of possibly absent digits, and is used in conjunction ...
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