Re: Q - Parsing & Manipulating Strings from XSL

Ok Woah!  The decimal-format is a way cool function.  (glad I read
through this)... I was about to suggest the old trick:

add 10000 to your number and right trim by 4.

Karl..

On 5/30/05, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Is there way to do this in pure XSLT instead of Xquery ??
>
> Of course. Just replace
>
>   let $x := EXPR
>
> and
>
>   declare variable $x := EXPR
>
> by
>
>   <xsl:variable name="x" select="EXPR"/>
>
> and replace
>
>   "return X" by
>
>   <xsl:value-of select="X"/>
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> >
> > > You've got a choice between using numeric arithmetic or
> > duration arithmetic.
> > > It's probably cleanest to use duration arithmetic though
> > it's a bit verbose.
> > >
> > > declare variable $one-minute := xdt:dayTimeDuration('PT1M')
> > >
> > > then
> > >
> > > let $time := xs:integer(JrnyTm) * $one-minute,
> > >     $hours := hours-from-duration($time),
> > >     $minutes := minutes-from-duration($time)
> > > return
> > >     concat($hours, ' hrs ', $minutes, ' minutes ')
> > >
> >
> > Regards, Ahsan