Re: [xsl] sum and substring xpath needed

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,

there are already some examples in the archive. It's not possible in the way 
you want to do it. I know only 2 possibilities: RTF or Dimitre's FXSL.

Joerg

Andrew Welch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please can someone give me the xpath that will sum() the following
> values into the select attribute of a variable (ie not a rtf).
>
> <colspec colwidth="38mm"/>
> <colspec colwidth="22mm"/>
> <colspec colwidth="26mm"/>
> <colspec colwidth="43mm"/>
>
> so something like:
>
> <xsl:variable name="total" 
>   select="sum(substring-before(//tgroup/colspec/@colwidth,'mm'))"/>
>
> ..this obviously fails because sum() requires a node-set and the
> substring functions return strings, but you get the idea.  I dont think
> its possible to do in a single select but you never know, hopefully
> there's some trick available.
>
> cheers
> andrew


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