Mihai

Thanks for putting me right on this.

I assume I will find somewhere in the xml spec that the decimal separator is 
'.'.  I shall go and look.

The confusion for me, I suppose, is rooted in the intention of the designers 
of xml that it should be human readable.  For me a file prepared in notepad 
is built by a presentation oriented tool.  However, I can see that the 
essance of xml is data interchange and therefore consistent formatting 
should outweigh other considerations.

Thanks again,
Mike

"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@y...> wrote in message 
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>> I am attempting some XSLT processing on a machine with German regional
>> settings.  The attached test case illustrates the problem.  German has
>> commas as decimal separators.
>
>> Excel and other applications respect comma as the decimal separator.
> Which is in fact wrong. Data transfer should be locale-insensitive.
> Only the presentation (user I/O) should depend on locales.
>
> See
>  http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/09/17/470413.aspx
> and
>  http://www.mihai-nita.net/20051025a.shtml
>
>
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