RE: Avoiding arithmetic (was [xsl] Muenchian Method Doesn't go far enough for me)

["Richard Lander" <rlander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very cool ...

I'll start doing this immediately ...

Rich 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 8:17 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

For future reference, when needing to do simple arithmetic as you've proposed:

At 2002-10-16 17:15 -0700, Richard Lander wrote:
>         <xslt:template match="section">
>                 <xslt:variable name="baseName" select="'H'"/>
>                 <xslt:variable name="currentHeading" select="title"/>
>                 <xslt:variable name="childHeading">
>                         <xslt:value-of select="$baseName"/>
>                         <xslt:value-of 
> select="substring-after(title,$baseName) + 1"/>
>                 </xslt:variable>

... you may wish to replace this with something simpler like:

      <xslt:variable name="childHeading"
                     select="translate( title, '12345', '23456' )"/>

I've assumed no error checking on the name since your code didn't have any 
error checking.

I hope this helps.

................... Ken


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