Re: [xslt] xsl:number format="{$...}"

["Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian rahtz computing-services oxford ac uk>]

Thomas Broyer writes:
 > No, it would be necessary to be 'format = { string }', and actually it is.
 > 
 > string-expression would have meant the attribute value must be evaluated as
 > an XPath expression (no attribute value template) and the result converted
 > to a string.
 > 
 > { string } means the value must be a string and _can_ be an attribute value
 > template.

so you agree that this is a simple oversight in libxslt? it matters
deeply to me, as I'd have to rewrite my TEI stylesheet family
considerably to work around it. since nearly all my work does
numbering, and I parameterize the format, none of my TEI documents can
work with libxslt :-}

Sebastian