Apply locale dynamically

Question

Hello,
I want to display numbers as "123,646,912.75" or "123.646.912,75" depending on a field value ("EN" or "DE") contained in XML data. I do not want the locale setting of the bipublisher server to be used.
I found the documentation for the XSLT standard "format_number" function but was not successful applying it.
I think the Oracle "format_number" function will not accomplish this...
I also have a field in the XML data which contains the format mask, f.ex. "FM999G999G999D9" to define the digits to be displayed after the decimal "point".
Help please,
Regards
Peter

Answer 1

Hi Peter,
http://winrichman.blogspot.com/2010/04/apply-number-locale-dynamically.html
There are many ways to do this.
option 1:
create a variable v_loc, and assign the locale based on the value in xml.
You can create it as separate variable if your report requires multiple format to be displayed.
like below
-- For German, set the variable.
<?xdoxslt:set_variable($_XDOCTX, ’V_LOC’, ‘DE-de’)?>
<?xdoxslt:xdo_format_number_l(100000,’999G999D99’,xdoxslt:get_variable($_XDOCTX, ’V_LOC’))?>
-- For English, set the variable.
<?xdoxslt:set_variable($_XDOCTX, ’V_LOC’, ‘EN-us’)?>
<?xdoxslt:xdo_format_number_l(100000,’999G999D99’,xdoxslt:get_variable($_XDOCTX, ’V_LOC’))?>option2:
based on condition you can apply it immediately.
<?xdoxslt:xdo_format_number_l(100000,’999G999D99’,'EN-us')?>
<?xdoxslt:xdo_format_number_l(100000,’999G999D99’,'DE-de')?>there are other methods too, but this will work for you.