Re: [xsl] RE: xslt and bitwise operations

Subject: Re: [xsl] RE: xslt and bitwise operations
From: Francis Norton <francis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:37:35 +0000
"Clapham, Paul" wrote:
> 
> Not directly, but it does support the arithmetic operations "div" and "mod"
> that you can use to simulate bitwise calculations.  For example, to extract
> the low-order bit from x you could use "x mod 2", and to extract the bit to
> the left of that you could use "floor(x div 2) mod 2" and like that.
> 
> Extracting more than one bit at a time using a mask (e.g. "x and 17") is
> Left As An Exercise For The Student.
> 
And as an excellent use case for Jeni's proposal for "xsl:script:
functions written in XSLT"

Francis.

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