Unit Price Format in XSL-FO Code for Standard Purchase Order Printing

Question

Hi All,
As I am new to XSL-FO, so i am not aware of doing XML,XSL-FO changes. I have an issue with the xsl-fo for standard po layout. My report layout gives ##,## instead of ##.## as my Unit Price. i.e. in the report for POs, it is showing unit price in the format as #,## eg: 0,32 or u can say like 1,70 instead it should show #.## something like 0.32 and 1.70 as my unit price. The piece of code related to unit price formatting in report as follows:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="(UNIT_PRICE,1,1 > 1) and (substring-before(UNIT_PRICE,',') > 0)">
<fo:table-cell xsl:use-decimal-format="euro2"> <fo:table-cell xsl:use-attribute-sets="table.cell5"> <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="form_data1">
<xsl:value-of select="format-number(substring-before(UNIT_PRICE,','),'#.###','euro2')"/>,<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),3,1)) > 4"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),3,1)) =''"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),3,1)) = 1"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),3,1)) = 2"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),3,1)) = 3"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),3,1)) = 4"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),2,1)) = ''"><xsl:value-of select="((substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),1,1))-(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,','),1,1)))"/></xsl:if>
          </fo:block>
     </fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-cell>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="(substring(UNIT_PRICE,1,1)=',')">
     <fo:table-cell xsl:use-attribute-sets="table.cell5"> <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="form_data1">
     <xsl:value-of select="UNIT_PRICE"/>
     </fo:block>
     </fo:table-cell>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="(UNIT_PRICE,1,1 > 1) and (substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.') > 0)">
<fo:table-cell xsl:use-decimal-format="euro2"> <fo:table-cell xsl:use-attribute-sets="table.cell5"> <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="form_data1">
     <xsl:value-of select="format-number(substring-before(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),'#.###','euro2')"/>,<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),3,1)) > 4"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),3,1)) =''"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),3,1)) = 1"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),3,1)) = 2"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),3,1)) = 3"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),3,1)) = 4"><xsl:value-of select="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),1,5))"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),2,1)) = ''"><xsl:value-of select="((substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),1,1))-(substring(substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,'.'),1,1)))"/></xsl:if>
     </fo:block>
     </fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-cell>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="(UNIT_PRICE,1,1 > 1 ) and (substring-after(UNIT_PRICE,',') ='') ">
<fo:table-cell xsl:use-decimal-format="euro"> <fo:table-cell xsl:use-attribute-sets="table.cell5"> <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="form_data1">
<xsl:value-of select="format-number(UNIT_PRICE,'#,###.00','euro')"/>
          </fo:block>
     </fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-cell>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
PS: My decimal formats for euro and euro2 are:
<xsl:decimal-format name="euro" decimal-separator="," grouping-separator="."/>
<xsl:decimal-format name="euro2" grouping-separator="." NaN="0"/>
Any help or reply regarding this issue will be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Sumir

Answer 1

Hi Michele:
I can check out for you how to print page number in XSL-FO (There is an O'Reilly) book, but I think I help you better by recommending a different strategy - Don't write XSL-FO stylesheets. While Purchasing does not support RTF templates you can still write RTF templates and convert them to FO using the XML Publisher Template Builder for Word.
Download the matching Template Builder for Word (5.0) or XML Publisher Desktop 5.5 (includes the Template Builder) patch and then Create your template as an RTF template.
You can then EXPORT the template as XSL-FO stylesheet and upload as to Purchasing AS LONG AS THE VERSION OF THE DESKTOP and E-Businees Suite XML Publisher MATCH.
If you still want to write XSL stylesheet, you can just use the Template Builder to generate you the code and paste the code (e.g. for page numbers) into your stylesheet.
By the way - Purchasing will support RTF templates in future versions...
Hope that helps,
Klaus