OpenWGA 7.7 - WebTML reference

Formats a number or date result

This attribute will only work if the tag output is a number or a date. In that case you can specify the format in which you want this data to be displayed on the page. You specify this format in a special syntax described under "Values".

The formatting done by this attribute is done before any encode-Processing.

There are two types of formatting expressions.

Simple formatting expressions are available to OpenWGA to have commonly used, localized versions of date and number display, that adapt to the preferred language of the browser user. Specify the following names:

• decimal:  A generic, localized number format, like "1,234.56" (en)
• shortDate, shortTime, shortDateTime: A completely numeric date/time format, like "4/26/10 4:06 PM" (en)
• mediumDate, mediumTime, mediumDateTime: A date/time format with shortened month names like " Apr 26, 2010 4:07:42 PM" (en)
• longDate, longTime, longDateTime: A long date/time format with full month names and time zone, like "April 26, 2010 4:08:48 PM CEST" (en)
• fullDate, fullTime, fullDateTime: A complete date/time format including seconds, "Monday, April 26, 2010 4:10:26 PM CEST" (en)
• iso8601 A standarized, language-independent date format, optimized for being read by software and used frequently for date literals in JavaScript/JSON: "2013-08-30T07:40:41Z"

Custom formatting expressions are composed from multiple single characters, which represent date/time/number entities, into a custom format. Use the following entity characters:

For number values:

Symbol	Location	Localized?	Meaning
0	Number	Yes	Digit
#	Number	Yes	Digit, zero shows as absent
.	Number	Yes	Decimal separator or monetary decimal separator
-	Number	Yes	Minus sign
,	Number	Yes	Grouping separator
E	Number	Yes	Separates mantissa and exponent in scientific notation. Need not be quoted in prefix or suffix.
;	Subpattern boundary	Yes	Separates positive and negative subpatterns
%	Prefix or suffix	Yes	Multiply by 100 and show as percentage
\u2030	Prefix or suffix	Yes	Multiply by 1000 and show as per mille
¤ (\u00A4)	Prefix or suffix	No	Currency sign, replaced by currency symbol. If doubled, replaced by international currency symbol. If present in a pattern, the monetary decimal separator is used instead of the decimal separator.
'	Prefix or suffix	No	Used to quote special characters in a prefix or suffix, for example, "'#'#" formats 123 to "#123". To create a single quote itself, use two in a row: "# o''clock".

Note that the point "." is always used as decimal separator in syntax expressions, just as the comma "," is always used as grouping separator.The characters used on output might actually be vice versa (as it is common on some locales, like "de"). So a "." in the syntax expression may actually be put out as a "," if the current user locale determines it as decimal separator.

For date values:

Letter	Date or Time Component	Presentation	Examples
G	Era designator	Text	AD
y	Year	Year	1996; 96
M	Month in year	Month	July; Jul; 07
w	Week in year	Number	27
W	Week in month	Number	2
D	Day in year	Number	189
d	Day in month	Number	10
F	Day of week in month	Number	2
E	Day in week	Text	Tuesday; Tue
a	Am/pm marker	Text	PM
H	Hour in day (0-23)	Number	0
k	Hour in day (1-24)	Number	24
K	Hour in am/pm (0-11)	Number	0
h	Hour in am/pm (1-12)	Number	12
m	Minute in hour	Number	30
s	Second in minute	Number	55
S	Millisecond	Number	978
z	Time zone	General time zone	Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z	Time zone	RFC 822 time zone	-0800

This is the syntax used by the Java date and number formatting classes java.text.SimpleDateFormat and java.text.DecimalFormat, which are internally used by OpenWGA. You find a more comprehensive documentation on the linked Javadoc of both classes.

Using simple formatting expressions for output of dates and numbers:

<tml:meta name="created" format="shortDate"/>
<tml:script expression="1234.56" format="decimal"/>

Composing custom format expressions for dates and numbers:

<tml:meta name="created" format="dd.MM.yyyy"/> // Puts out just date, month and year numericly
<tml:script expression="1234" format="#,##0.00"/> // Puts out 1,234.00