Subject: Re: [xsl] Doing Math on Durations and Creating dayTimeDuration Instances From: "Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 14:41:00 -0000 |
I found the section on operations on times particularly challenging to understand. I appreciate the precision of the definitions but the lack of practical examples for some things makes it harder to translate into practice. Cheers, E. -- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com On 10/6/16, 4:02 PM, "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >A lot of people miss this one. By providing a convenient operator for >this common operation, we ensured that people searching the function >library wouldn't find it... > >Michael Kay >Saxonica > >> On 6 Oct 2016, at 13:37, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx >><xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I think that's what I missed: I didn't realize you could do arithmetic >> that directly. >> >> I'll try it. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Eliot >> -- >> Eliot Kimber >> http://contrext.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 10/6/16, 12:24 PM, "Jirka Kosek jirka@xxxxxxxx" >> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016, at 11:40, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> I'm using XSLT to extract timing information from logs in order to >>>> determine the duration of actions. Each log item has a time stamp in >>>>the >>>> usual format (2016-10-05T15:52:17.525:+0200). >>> >>> And why are you simply not just subtracting two dateTimes, something >>> like: >>> >>> xs:dateTime("2015-01-01T12:00:00Z") - >>> xs:dateTime("2014-07-10T12:00:00Z") >>> >>> This will give you back duration. Or perhaps I have misunderstood... >>> >>> Jirka >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@xxxxxxxx http://xmlguru.cz >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Professional XML consulting and training services >>> DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
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