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I am fairly new to this. What I want to do is pass an attribute called Formula to the format number function in XSLT that calculates the Total Columns of a table. Examples of the attribute value :( sum(//M1000) , (sum(//M1005) div (sum(//M1003) + sum(//M1004)))*100 ). If I hard code, everything works but I want something dynamic. The problem appears to be that the value is passed as a string and thus the calc is not executed. Here is a snippet of the XSL:

 <xsl:for-each select="//Row[1]/*[@Type='Data']" >
      <xsl:variable name = "N" ><xsl:value-of select ="@Formula"/></xsl:variable>
      <xsl:choose >
       <xsl:when test ="@Format='0'"> 
           <td  class="Tablebody2" align="left" ><font size='1'><xsl:value-of select="format-number($N,'$ #,###,###')"/></font></td>
         </xsl:when> 
         <xsl:when test ="@Format='1'"> 
    <td  class="Tablebody2" align="left" ><font size='1'><xsl:value-of select="format-number($N,'0.0')"/></font></td>             
         </xsl:when> 
         <xsl:when test ="@Format='2'"> 
    <td  class="Tablebody2" align="left" ><font size='1'><xsl:value-of select="format-number($N,'0.00')"/></font></td>             
         </xsl:when> 
         <xsl:when test ="@Format='D'"> 
    <td  class="Tablebody2" align="left" ><font size='1'><xsl:value-of select="format-number($N,'$ #,###,###')"/></font></td>         
         </xsl:when> 
         <xsl:when test ="@Format='P'"> 
    <td  class="Tablebody2" align="left" ><font size='1'><xsl:value-of select="format-number($N,'##.##')"/>%</font></td>           
         </xsl:when> 
         
          <xsl:otherwise> 
          </xsl:otherwise> 
      </xsl:choose> 
 </xsl:for-each>
Thanks for your help in advance.

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Details will depend on your XSLT implementation. Refer to the documentation on your XSLT implementation for parameter details of internal and extension functions.

This was first published in May 2002

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