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title: <xsl:decimal-format>
slug: Web/XSLT/Element/decimal-format

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The <xsl:decimal-format> element defines the characters and symbols that are to be used in converting numbers into strings using the format-number( ) function.

Syntax

<xsl:decimal-format
  name=NAME
  decimal-separator=CHARACTER
  grouping-separator=CHARACTER
  infinity=STRING
  minus-sign=CHARACTER
  NaN=STRING
  percent=CHARACTER
  per-mille=CHARACTER
  zero-digit=CHARACTER
  digit=CHARACTER
  pattern-separator=CHARACTER />

Required Attributes

None.

Optional Attributes

• name

  • : Specifies a name for this format.

• decimal-separator

  • : Specifies the decimal point character. The default is (.).

• grouping-separator

  • : Specifies the thousands separator character. The default is (,).

• infinity

  • : Specifies the string used to represent infinity. The default is the string "Infinity".

• minus-sign

  • : Specifies the minus sign character. The default is the hyphen (-).

• NaN

  • : Specifies the string used when the value is not a number. The default is the string "NaN".

• percent

  • : Specifies the percentage sign character. The default is (%).

• per-mille

  • : Specifies the per thousand character. The default is (‰).

• zero-digit

  • : Specifies the digit zero character. The default is (0).

• digit

  • : Specifies the character used in the format pattern to stand for a digit. The default is (#).

• pattern-separator

  • : Specifies the character separating positive and negative subpatterns in a format pattern. The default is the semicolon (;).

Type

Top-level, must be the child of <xsl:stylesheet> or <xsl:transform>.

Defined

XSLT, section 12.3.

Gecko support

Supported as of 1.0 (Mozilla 1.0, Netscape 7.0).