Subject: RE: [xsl] Converting number to ASCII-character From: "Chris Bayes" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:42:59 +0100 |
Andre, It's early Monday morning. I am sure he meant concat('&#', $number, ';') which produces A which displays in the browser as A Ciao Chris XML/XSL Portal http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Mengel Andre (FV/SLM) * > Sent: 24 September 2001 10:04 > To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: AW: [xsl] Converting number to ASCII-character > > > Dear Michael, > > first of all thank you for the fast response refering > to my question. > > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Michael Kay [mailto:mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Gesendet: Montag, 24. September 2001 10:29 > > An: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Betreff: RE: [xsl] Converting number to ASCII-character > > > > > > > I have a variable, which contains a number and I want to > output the > > > appropriate > > > ASCII- charater. > > > For example > > > > > > <xsl:variable name = "number" select = "65"/> > > > > > > should output an A. > > > Is there a function or something similar to solve this issue ? > > > > The closest equivalent is: > > <xsl:value-of select="concat('&', $number, ';')" > > disable-output-escaping="yes"/> > > which works because Unicode character values are a superset > of ASCII. > > > > this seemed to be the best solution for me. But the xsl:value > element outputs the following: > > &65; > > > > > If you want to avoid d-o-e, you can > > (a) escape into an extension function > > (b) use > > > > <xsl:variable name="ascii"> > > !"#$%^....abcde...ABCDE....</xsl:variable> > > <xsl:value-of select="substring($ascii, $number - 31, 1)"/> > > > > Mike Kay > > > > XSL-List info and archive: > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > > > XSL-List info > and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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