XalanJ 2.7.1 - format-number implemented?

[ROHDE Alexander <RO...@eib.org>]

Hello,
 
I cannot believe that the format-number function got obsolete with version 2.7.1, so
I guess there will be a simple answer to my question.
 
I am currently migrating an application currently using Xalan2 1.4.1 to use version
2.7.1. We are using JDK 1.4.2, which will remain unchanged for now.
 
Everything seemed to work quite ok with the new version (performance also increased)
until I noticed that calls to format-number() returned empty Strings for any combination
of arguments I tried. Basically my test case format-number(42, '0000') did not result
in 0042 which I hoped for.

I guess I should further mention that I am using xalan:evaluate to execute the function.

I looked at the source code in question and I could see, that the class
org.apache.xpath.compiler.FunctionTable
does not contain a function mapping for format-number, which seems to be the problem.
Am I looking in the wrong corner?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.
Alex

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