using node fragments

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Subject: using node fragments
From: Woody <woody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:36:37 +0100

I have this section of an xml file that needs to be rendered to a table

<TGROUP>
  <COLSPEC COLNUM="1" COLNAME="1" COLWIDTH="0.713in"/>
  <COLSPEC COLNUM="2" COLNAME="2" COLWIDTH="1.179in"/>
  <COLSPEC COLNUM="3" COLNAME="3" COLWIDTH="1.272in"/>
  <COLSPEC COLNUM="4" COLNAME="4" COLWIDTH="3.283in"/>
  <THEAD>
    <ROW>
      <ENTRY COLNAME="1">Item</ENTRY>
      <ENTRY COLNAME="2">Control</ENTRY>
      <ENTRY COLNAME="3">Selection</ENTRY>
      <ENTRY COLNAME="4">Function</ENTRY>
        </ROW>
        </THEAD>
                ... lots of rows follow here

Problem here is that I need to change the COLWIDTH into percentages to render out to the table.

I started with:

<xsl:variable name="sizes"> <xsl:for-each select="ancestor::TGROUP/COLSPEC[@COLNUM]/@COLWIDTH"> <xsl:sort select="@COLNUM" order="ascending" data-type="number"/> <xsl:variable name="str" select="."/> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="contains($str,'in')"><xsl:value-of select="substring($str,1,string-length($str)-2)"/></xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="$str"/></xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:variable>

which gets a tree fragment of the sizes which I was then intending to add up and convert to a percentage but hit the problem that it is a tree fragment which I can't do anything useful with.

As far as I can see I have the options of using javascript or node-set() to be able to do anything with these values, both of which are not xslt 1.0 (which is what I was aiming for). As I want to run this on two separate xsl processors (msxml on the PC and sablotron on the mac) am I stuck with having to have two separate stylesheets for use in this?

Woody

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using node fragments Woody - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:29:45 -0400 (EDT) <= David Carlisle - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:36:24 -0400 (EDT) <Possible follow-ups> Andrew Welch - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:39:08 -0400 (EDT) TSchutzerWeissmann - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:59:50 -0400 (EDT) Passin, Tom - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:42:12 -0400 (EDT)

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