Xsl Formatting of SSno, Phone no

[GKatReliable]

I have searched for tips on how to format a Social Security Number or a phone number using xls when the xml is such as this:
<ssno>123456789</ssno>
<phone>1234567890</phone>
The SSno should appear on a web page as
123-45-6789
and the phone number should be, of course,
(123) 456-7890
I can't find any specific reference to the xsl syntax for doing this.
Regards,
Glenn Koproske

 

[k5tm]

Glenn,

It will be a combination of things. I will do SSN and leave phone number as an exercise for the student (as my old calculus textbook used to say).

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<xsl:value-of select="substring(ssno,1,3)/><xsl:text>-</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="substring(ssno,4,2)/><xsl:text>-</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="substring(ssno,6,4)/>

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[GKatReliable]

Much appreciated.

One other question, in ASP.Net in Visual Studio.Net 2003 at our company, when you create a new document for Xsl, Microsoft creates an .xslt file for you. All of the MSDN documentation says to save things to an .xsl file.
Are the .xslt and .xsl file extensions interchangeable?

Regards,
Glenn Koproske

 

[k5tm]

Yes, I would think so. One would further speculate that the .xsl is a carryover from the days when extensions were limited to three characters. You see the same thing with .htm and .html.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com