Subject: RE: [xsl] get the sum of a sequence of numbers From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 23:33:52 +0100 |
I'm sorry, I can see that you're quoting an answer that I gave in response to a message of yours, but I don't recall enough of the context to help you further. Start again with a new question. The usual things: what's your input, what's your desired output, how are you trying to solve the problem, where are you getting stuck. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen McAdams [mailto:kemcadams@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 03 May 2006 23:09 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [xsl] get the sum of a sequence of numbers > > > That does not seem to work in this situation. > > Gives the wrong answer? Gives an error message? Catches fire? > It's a lot easier to diagnose problems when you know what the > symptoms are. > ======== > I concatenates the values in the node and displays them as i > reported in the first email. > > > > > > <xsl:variable name="mbt" select="sum(for $n in > > number($mb) return number($n))"/> > > number($mb) is going to produce a single number as its > result. So this is the same as select="sum(number($mb))" > which is the same as select="number($mb)". I don't know what > $mb is, but if it's a sequence of strings that can be > converted to numbers then you want > > > <xsl:variable name="mbt" select="sum(for $n in $mb return > number($n))"/> > > that is, you want to convert the strings to numbers individually. > > However, $mb isn't a sequence of strings, because you declared it as: > > <xsl:variable name="mb"> > <xsl:apply-templates mode="mb"/> > </xsl:variable> > > which means $mb is actually a single document node; so the > "for" expression isn't going to do anything useful. I can't > tell how to correct this without knowing what's coming back > from the apply-templates. > ===== > What's coming back is a document node that contains the word > count for each child element that contains a language attribute. > > What i need cumulative count of the total words of the child > elements that contain a language attribute. > > The other solution that was recommended was to copy these > child elements into a document node and count the words in > this new document node. > > Im just not sure what the best technique to use to utilize > the benefits of xslt 2.0 to accomplish this count- > > Karen McAdams
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