Re: XPath 1.0 Expression to Test for 3 Digit Number

floor(.) = number(.) and number(.) > 99 and not(number(.) > 999)


Cheers,
Dimitre

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> translate(., '0123456789', '9999999999') = '999' and number(.) > 99
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> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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>
> On 08/05/2012 21:07, Don Smith wrote:
>>
>> I need an XPath 1.0 expression that will test a node and return a
>> boolean if the node content is a 3 digit number (i.e., 100-999) and
>> false if it's anything else.
>>
>> The catch is this expression won't
>> be in a transformation so I can't use variables or other additional
>> constructs. All I get is one expression. I've tried this
>>
>> *[(string(number(.)) !='NaN')]
>>
>>
>> and
>> B obtained the number that I need. But I can't get any sort of compare to
>> B work that makes the number be more than 99 and less than 1,000.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Don
>



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