Re: [xsl] Math: Removing X number of zeroes from number Y.

[Ahsan Ali <doubleletter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Andrew,

Thank you ! This works perfectly.

Best Regards,

Ahsan

On 6/6/05, Andrew Welch <ajwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have a fare element that is returned as, for example,
> > 79000. The decimal point value is specified in another
> > element as for example 2. Therefore the number should be: 790.00
> >
> > There's a way to do this mathematically:
> >
> > Where x=DecimalPoint, and y=fare, the forumla would be y/(10^x)
> >
> > But as far as I know there's no exponential function in XSLT
> > 1.0. I'm using, or rather, _have_ to use MSXML, I can't go
> > for FXSLT, etc.
> >
> > It's worth mentioning that fare is of type 'double' and
> > DecimalPoint is of type 'short'
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas on how to do this in plain XSL ?
>
>
> <xsl:value-of select="concat(substring(.,0,string-length(.) - $dp + 1),
> '.', substring(.,string-length(.) - $dp + 1))"/>
>
> $dp is the number of decimal places.
>
> cheers
> andrew
>
>


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