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Subject: Re: Library functions
From: "Carmelo Montanez" <carmelo@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:02:53 -0400
xsl calculation curly
Thanks for the answer!!!

Carmelo
----- Original Message -----
From: "DuCharme, Bob (LNG)" <robert.ducharme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <XSL-FO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: RE:  Library functions


> >Is the following piece
> >of psedo code has the correct idea:
> >
> >    <fo:block
> >            border-before-width = "floor(4.2 div 2.0)*1.0in"
> >   </fo:block>
>
> To tell an XSLT processor to evaluate an expression, you put curly braces
> around it to make it an attribute value template. The string showing the
> units ("in") will just confuse it when it's trying to do the math, so
append
> that to the result of the calculation by putting it after the right brace.
> (After all, you're telling the FO processor about the units, not the XSLT
> processor, which won't know what to do with them.) This gives you the
> following:
>
>   <fo:block border-before-width = "{floor(4.2 div 2.0)}in"/>
>
> I wrote something for XML.com demonstrating the use of various math
> functions in XSLT; see http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/05/07/xsltmath.html.
> (It's an excerpt from my book.)
> Note that the examples in the column don't use attribute value templates
> because the XSLT processor assumes that the value of an xsl:value-of
> element's select attribute is an expression to be evaluated. For this
> reason, you would have to add the "in" units string as a text node outside
> of the xsl:value-of element.
>
> Bob DuCharme            www.snee.com/bob             <bob@
> snee.com>      see http://www.snee.com/bob/xsltquickly for
> info on new book "XSLT Quickly" from Manning Publications.
>
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>
>


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