Re: Can't get subtraction to work in variable statement

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Subject: Re: Can't get subtraction to work in variable statement
From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:00:29 -0700

At 15:56 28-08-2000 -0400, Brian Burridge wrote:

For some reason, the first two variable declarations work fine, but the
third one gives this error:
pattern = '$pm-$hourMinutes' Extra illegal tokens: '$', 'hourMinutes'

     <xsl:variable name="hours" select="round($pm div 60)"/>
     <xsl:variable name="hourMinutes" select="$hours*60"/>
     <xsl:variable name="minutes" select="$pm-$hourMinutes"/>

Can't I subtract in XSL? I'm using Xalan.

The problem is that a variable name is an XML QName, which can include hyphens. Without any spaces, the select value is parsed as '$' 'pm-' '$' 'hourMinutes' - in other words, a variable indicator, the name of the variable 'pm-', and then another variable indicator, which isn't legal there. Instead, try

<xsl:variable name="minutes" select="$pm - $hourMinutes"/>

-Chris
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Can't get subtraction to work in variable statement Brian Burridge - Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:56:58 -0400 Christopher R. Maden - Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:00:29 -0700 <= <Possible follow-ups> Kaganovich, Yevgeniy (Eugene) - Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:22:18 -0700 Brian Burridge - Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:22:17 -0400 Paul_Dick - Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:31:35 -0400 Spychalski, Frank - Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:02:14 +0200

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