long numbers in XForm field

Hi

Can anyone tell me how I can display a large number in an XForm field when displaying the result of a calculation.

If, for instance, I produced a calculation such as 9999 x 9999, the result will come up as 9.9980001E7.

Are there any settings in OPS or indeed XForms which will allow me to specify the length of a returned calculation before it jumps off to a scientific notation/infinity!?

The result should surely be 99980001 in this case

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The formatting section in the Orbeon documentation explains how you can use the XSLT format-number() function:

    http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-ng#xforms-formatting

eg <xforms:output ref="size" xxforms:format="format-number(., '###,##0')"/>  

Adrian

Colin Seaman wrote:

Hi

Can anyone tell me how I can display a large number in an XForm field when displaying the result of a calculation.

If, for instance, I produced a calculation such as 9999 x 9999, the result will come up as 9.9980001E7.

Are there any settings in OPS or indeed XForms which will allow me to specify the length of a returned calculation before it jumps off to a scientific notation/infinity!?

The result should surely be 99980001 in this case

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Larry,

can you achieve this with some css?

<input id="myElementId"...>...</input>

#myElementId input{
  text-align: right;
  float: right;
  /* etc.*/
}

More:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/present.html#align
http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/51329

Hope I understood your question right, and that you find this usefull  :-)

Henrik

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Question for everyone:

Is there any way to right-align an input field (for entering numeric
data) in XForms?

Larry T. Chen
Sr. Software Engineer
Intelenet Communications, Inc.






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Larry,

best way to do this is to sorround the the xforms:input with a div like this:

<xhtml:div id="wrapper">
    <xforms:input ...>...</xforms:input>
</xhtml:div>

Then you can reference the xforms:input elements like this in your css:

#wrapper input{

}

#wrapper span{

}

Hope that works.

Henrik

On 12/9/06, Larry T. Chen <[hidden email]> wrote:

Henrik,

Thank you for your reply.  Exactly like you suggested, I'm trying to apply "text-align: right;" to the input field.  However, because the Orbeon XForms engine does the  translation of <xforms:input> into an HTML <input field>, I attempted to assign a class to the <xforms:input> element and it showed up in the <span> element that wraps the HTML input element instead of the HTML <input> element itself when you view the Orbeon-generated HTML.  Of course applying "text-align:right" to the <span> element has no effect.

Basically I need some way of assigning a class or id for the generated HTML input field via XForms.
Any ideas?

Larry T. Chen
Sr. Software Engineer
Intelenet Communications, Inc.

Henrik Pettersen wrote:

Larry,

can you achieve this with some css?

<input id="myElementId"...>...</input>

#myElementId input{
  text-align: right;
  float: right;
  /* etc.*/
}

More:
<a href="http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Ejkorpela/forms/present.html#align" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/present.html#align
<a href="http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/51329" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/51329

Hope I understood your question right, and that you find this usefull  :-)

Henrik

On 12/9/06, Larry T. Chen <[hidden email]> wrote:

Question for everyone:

Is there any way to right-align an input field (for entering numeric
data) in XForms?

Larry T. Chen
Sr. Software Engineer
Intelenet Communications, Inc.






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Colin,

How exactly are you getting this result? I seem to be getting 99980001 as expected. Can you send a file we can run in the sandbox?

-Erik

Colin Seaman wrote:

Hi

Can anyone tell me how I can display a large number in an XForm field when displaying the result of a calculation.

If, for instance, I produced a calculation such as 9999 x 9999, the result will come up as 9.9980001E7.

Are there any settings in OPS or indeed XForms which will allow me to specify the length of a returned calculation before it jumps off to a scientific notation/infinity!?

The result should surely be 99980001 in this case

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