Re: Calculating

I'm sure there are more elegant solutions but try this:

Given XML
---------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<thing>
	<amount>7</amount>
	<price>2.50</price>
</thing>

stylesheet
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="thing">
	<xsl:value-of select="./amount * ./price"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:transform>

bash$ saxon thing.xml thing.xsl
17.5
$bash
> Hello,
> 
> in my XML file I got two elements named price and amount. Is it
> possible to multiplicate the value of these elements in a xsl
> stylesheet and display it as total amount.
> In a book I found an example, that in XSL files you can work with
> arithmetical terms, but every syntax I tried, did not work. I always
> got the error "Expected token 'eof' found '*'".
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
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