Re: [xsl] Eliminating leading zeros

["Mark Wilson" <drmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes I am using XSLT2 (albeit very poorly understood). Will try your 
suggestion.
Thanks,
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Eliminating leading zeros


> any chance you are using xslt2? in which case
>
> select="replace(.,'^ *0*','')
>
> would remove any leading spaces or zeros.
>
> otherwise something tiresome like
> <xsl:variable name="x" select="normalize-space(.)"/>
> <xsl:choose>
>  <xsl:when test="contains($x,' ')">
>    <xsl:variable name="n" select="substring-before($x,' ')"/>
>    <xsl:variable name="t" select="substring-after($x,' ')"/>
>    <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="number($n)=number($n)">
>       <xsl:value-of select="number($n)"/>
>     </xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>
>       <xsl:value-of select="$n"/>
>     </>
>   </>
>  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>  <xsl:value-of select="$t"/>
> </>
> <xsl:otherwise>
>    <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="number($x)=number($x)">
> ...