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Subject: Avoiding arithmetic (was Muenchian Method Doesn't go far enough for me)
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:17:24 -0400
Avoiding arithmetic (was  Muenchian Method Doesn't go f
For future reference, when needing to do simple arithmetic as you've proposed:

At 2002-10-16 17:15 -0700, Richard Lander wrote:
<xslt:template match="section">
<xslt:variable name="baseName" select="'H'"/>
<xslt:variable name="currentHeading" select="title"/>
<xslt:variable name="childHeading">
<xslt:value-of select="$baseName"/>
<xslt:value-of select="substring-after(title,$baseName) + 1"/>
</xslt:variable>

... you may wish to replace this with something simpler like:


     <xslt:variable name="childHeading"
                    select="translate( title, '12345', '23456' )"/>

I've assumed no error checking on the name since your code didn't have any error checking.

I hope this helps.

................... Ken


-- G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-10-1 Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Next public training: 2002-12-08,2003-02-03,06,03-03,06


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