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2008/10/27

Formatting a number in Orbeon XForms

Last changed: Oct 27, 2008 13:28 by Arun Batchu
Labels: orbeon, xforms

If you want to format a number such as 8988981.00 to look like 8,988,981.00, you would do it like this:

Works in <xf:input> element too (according to documentation)
Works only with 'ref' attribute and does not work with 'value'

Posted at 27 Oct @ 1:03 PM by

Arun Batchu |

Calculating big decimals in Orbeon

Last changed: Oct 28, 2008 23:22 by Arun Batchu
Labels: orbeon, xforms, error, tip, workaround, calculate

Discovered what appears to be a problem in calculating big decimals (greater than 1,000,000 ). I have a requirement where the total is a sum of all line items.

Each of the $ amounts on the line items is an xs:decimal . The sum is also a decimal. When the sum is greater than 1,000,000, [Orbeon] seems to store the result in an exponential format (e.g. 1.000000E6). This representation is invalid for an xs:decimal (the pink background is a style applied to invalid fields).

I solved the problem by casting the result back into a decimal:
- XPath to the rescue.

Now it looks the way it is desired:

Posted at 27 Oct @ 2:05 PM by

Arun Batchu |

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