Re: Function that reduces the number of digits to the

On Tue, 2020-06-23 at 14:29 +0000, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> 
> I want a function that reduces the number of digits to the right of
> the decimal point in $num according to the value specified in
> $desired-number-of-digits-after-decimal-point

Make a variable, $pattern, "

<xsl:sequence select="
 let $pattern := '(\.\d{' || $ndigits || '})\d+$'
 return replace($input,  $pattern, '$1')
 " />

may or may not be clearer - using a variable $pattern simplifies
constructructing regular expressions containing braces.

This will work in XSLT 3and XQuery, but doesn't cope well with zero,
nor with input ending in .

So one could write,

<xsl:sequence select="
  if ($ndigits le 0) then substring-before($input, '.')
  else
     let $pattern := '(\.\d{' || $ndigits || '})\d+$'
     return replace($input,  $pattern, '$1')
  " />

This is more succinct than yours, but whether it's easier to follow
depends on one's comfort with regular expressions and knowing that
 \d{3} will match exactly digits.

One of the topics in the talk i'll be  giving tomorrow at Markup UK
relates to the rhetorical nature of the stylesheets we write.

Liam


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