Re: Can't get subtraction to work in variable statement

["Brian Burridge" <brian_burridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah yes. Of course. Thank you much. It's working now.

Brian

"Kaganovich, Yevgeniy (Eugene)" wrote:

> put spaces around the minus so that the processor doesn't think it's part of
> a variable name.
>
> - Eugene
>
> : -----Original Message-----
> : From: Brian Burridge [mailto:brian_burridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> : Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 12:57 PM
> : To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> : Subject: Can't get subtraction to work in variable statement
> :
> :
> : For some reason, the first two variable declarations work
> : fine, but the
> : third one gives this error:
> : pattern = '$pm-$hourMinutes' Extra illegal tokens: '$', 'hourMinutes'
> :
> :      <xsl:variable name="hours" select="round($pm div 60)"/>
> :      <xsl:variable name="hourMinutes" select="$hours*60"/>
> :      <xsl:variable name="minutes" select="$pm-$hourMinutes"/>
> :
> : Can't I subtract in XSL? I'm using Xalan.
> :
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