XSLT Template: Formatting currency amount in English and French Format

The following XSLT template shows how to format to currency amount in and English and French format.

Note that the third argument in format-number() refers to the name of the <xsl:decimal-format> element:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output indent="yes" />
  <xsl:decimal-format name="french" decimal-separator="," grouping-separator="&#160;"/>

  <xsl:template name="FormatAmount">
    <xsl:param name="amount"/>
    <xsl:param name="language"/>
    <xsl:param name="show-dollar-sign">false</xsl:param>
    <xsl:variable name="dollar-sign">
      <xsl:if test="$show-dollar-sign = 'true' ">$</xsl:if>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$language = 'english' ">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat($dollar-sign, format-number($amount, '#,##0.00'))"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$language = 'french' ">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat(format-number($amount, '#&#160;##0,00', 'french'), ' ', $dollar-sign)"/>
      </xsl:when>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The <xsl:decimal-format> element defines the characters and symbols to be used when converting numbers into strings, with the format-number() function.

All countries do not use the same characters for separating the decimal part from the integer part, and for grouping digits. With the <xsl:decimal-format> element you can change special characters to other symbols.

This element is a top level element.

The format-number() function can refer to the <xsl:decimal-format> element by name.

<xsl:decimal-format
name="name"
decimal-separator="char"
grouping-separator="char"
infinity="string"
minus-sign="char"
NaN="string"
percent="char"
per-mille="char"
zero-digit="char"
digit="char"
pattern-separator="char"/>

  Non-breaking Space;