RE: [xsl] Fw: problem with sum() function

Subject: RE: [xsl] Fw: problem with sum() function
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:33:04 +0100
> > Hi All
> >          I am using sum() function with nodelist. Now my 
> problem is that
> > when a source elemnt contains leading + sign then sum 
> returns NAN. Is
> there
> > a way to remove this + sign and then calculate the sum. 

Google for "XSLT 1.0 sum of computed value".

XSLT 2.0 allows the leading plus sign; and if it didn't, you could do it
with

sum(for $x in $nodeset return number(translate($x, '+', ''))

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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