Very cool ...
I'll start doing this immediately ...
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman(_at_)CraneSoftwrights(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 8:17 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
For future reference, when needing to do simple arithmetic as you've proposed:
At 2002-10-16 17:15 -0700, Richard Lander wrote:
<xslt:template match="section">
<xslt:variable name="baseName" select="'H'"/>
<xslt:variable name="currentHeading" select="title"/>
<xslt:variable name="childHeading">
<xslt:value-of select="$baseName"/>
<xslt:value-of
select="substring-after(title,$baseName) + 1"/>
</xslt:variable>
... you may wish to replace this with something simpler like:
<xslt:variable name="childHeading"
select="translate( title, '12345', '23456' )"/>
I've assumed no error checking on the name since your code didn't have any
error checking.
I hope this helps.
................... Ken
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