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Ken, Your solution is correct.Dint mean to poke your solution .. sorry String length is still a tricky thing to do for numbers ( IMO ) Vasu On 27 May 2012 11:47, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 2012-05-27 09:14 +0100, Vasu Chakkera wrote: >> >> string-length could be tricky if the number 999 is represented as 00999. > > > I'm not sure about your concern because I already accommodated that > situation with my answer: > > string-length(string(number(.)))=3] > > The number cast will ensure that any leading insignificant zeroes won't > impact the string's length. > > Is there something I'm missing that prompted you to write? > > . . . . . . . . . Ken > > >> On 8 May 2012 21:14, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > At 2012-05-08 13:07 -0700, 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 >> >> obtained the number that I need. But I can't get any sort of compare >> >> to >> >> work that makes the number be more than 99 and less than 1,000. >> > >> > >> > Did you try just checking its length? Note I use a different comparison >> > to >> > ensure the value is, itself, a number at all. >> > >> > *[number(.)=number(.) and string-length(string(number(.)))=3] >> > >> > I hope this helps. >> > >> > . . . . . . . . Ken > > > > > -- > Public XSLT, XSL-FO, UBL and code list classes in Europe -- Oct 2012 > Contact us for world-wide XML consulting and instructor-led training > Free 5-hour lecture: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/udemy.htm > Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ > G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Google+ profile: https://plus.google.com/116832879756988317389/about > Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal > -- Vasu Chakkera NodeLogic Limited Oxford www.node-logic.com ==============
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