Re: More-than-basic maths

brilliant - works perfectly.  thanks.

(a possible suggestion: for newbies like me, it would be nice to have a
very very basic example right on the front page of the site, which gives
the "import" element and a simple call to "sin" (for example).  now that i
see how to do it, it is so simple it seems obvious, but at first i was
confused how to call a "library" from xsl).

thanks again,
andrew

Dimitre Novatchev said:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:50:16 -0400 (CLT), andrew cooke <acooke@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can't work out how to do more complex maths (like logarithms, trig
>> functions, etc) in XSL.  Is it possible?  If not, is there any other
>> tool
>> I can use in an xml pipeline?  Is the only option writing SAX or DOM
>> code
>> in some non-dedicated programming language?
>>
>> (I'm generating plots from XML data via XSL to SVG)
>>
>
> FXSL (a function/template library implementing HOF in XSLT and written
> in pure XSLT)  implements:
>
> Math functions:
>      http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/xslCalculator/The%20FXSL%20Calculator.html
>
> Random number generators:
>     http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/Random/Casting%20the%20Dice%20with%20FXSL-htm.htm
>
> Higher-order functions, currying/partial application, etc...:
>     http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/FuncProg/Functional%20Programming.html
>     http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/PartialApps/Partial%20Applications.html
>
>     http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/xslfo-pdf/2003/Novatchev01/EML2003Novatchev01.pdf
>
>
>
> A good example of the math capabilities of FXSL for XSLT 2.0 was
> recently provided at:
>
>     http://www.xslt.com/html/xsl-list/2005-01/msg00521.html
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev
>
>


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