RE: Can't get subtraction to work in variable statement

["Kaganovich, Yevgeniy (Eugene)" <ykaganovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

put spaces around the minus so that the processor doesn't think it's part of
a variable name.

- Eugene

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Brian Burridge [mailto:brian_burridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
: Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 12:57 PM
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: Subject: Can't get subtraction to work in variable statement
: 
: 
: For some reason, the first two variable declarations work 
: fine, but the
: third one gives this error:
: pattern = '$pm-$hourMinutes' Extra illegal tokens: '$', 'hourMinutes'
: 
:      <xsl:variable name="hours" select="round($pm div 60)"/>
:      <xsl:variable name="hourMinutes" select="$hours*60"/>
:      <xsl:variable name="minutes" select="$pm-$hourMinutes"/>
: 
: Can't I subtract in XSL? I'm using Xalan.
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