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XSLT 2.0 lets you write stylesheet functions that can be called from within an XPath expression, which solves this problem. In 1.0 you could try breaking the expression up by using variables, but of course these can't take arguments in the way that a template or function can. Michael Kay > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Paul A. Hoadley > Sent: 03 January 2004 03:20 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Calculations involving measurements with units > > > Hello, > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:08:38PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > > <xsl:variable name="upper-margin" > > select="concat(number(translate($page-height, > translate($page-height, > > '0123456789.', ''), '')) div 3.75, translate($page-height, > > '012345679.', ''))"/> > > How can I neaten this up? I've written two templates: > > <xsl:template name="getUnits"> > <xsl:param name="input"/> > <xsl:value-of select="translate($input, '012345679.', '')"/> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template name="stripUnits"> > <xsl:param name="input"/> > <xsl:value-of select="translate($input, translate($page-height, > '012345679.', ''), '')"/> > </xsl:template> > > This would seem to only _increase_ the verbosity of what I > have quoted above, since now I can't call the templates > inside the 'select' of the variable declaration. What is the > standard idiom here? > > > -- > Paul. > mailto:paulh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:phoadley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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