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Package overview for net.sf.saxon.number
This package provides classes associated with numbering and the xsl:number element.
It is possible to extend the range of numberings available by providing a Numberer
for a specific language. This should be named Numberer_xx where xx is the language code,
corresponding to the value of the lang attribute in xsl:number.
The class Numberer_de is provided as an illustration of how to do this;
it is invoked when the stylesheet specifies <xsl:number lang="de">, and a format
token of "eins" is used: it allows numbers up to ten to be output as "eins", "zwei", "drei", etc.
The class Numberer_en provides the standard numbering options. As well as the
format tokens defined in the XSLT 1.0 specification (for example, "1", "001", "a", "i") it supports
other numbering options including:
Greek upper and lower case letters
Cyrillic upper and lower case letters
Hebrew letters
Japanese: Hiragana-A, Hiragana-B, Katakana-A, or Katakana-B letters, and Kanji digits
English words: the format token "one" produces numbers such as "twenty five"
These classes also include code to support the localization of dates as defined
in the XSLT format-dateTime() group of functions.
Michael H. Kay
Saxonica Limited
9 February 2005