It looks to me like
<xsl:variable name="ruler"
select="'----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4....'"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring($ruler, @startNum, (@endNum - @startNum +
1))"/>
Of course you can construct the ruler programmatically if you want to, but I
don't see the point.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Cindy Hunt [mailto:Cindy(_dot_)Hunt(_at_)sas(_dot_)com]
Sent: 03 March 2006 16:46
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Is this possible with XSL?
Hi-
I am having to do a bit of difficult programming work in my
stylesheet that I am trying to figure out if I can actually
code this with XSL or if I should try to call a Java
extension to do this instead. We have an empty element called
<columnRuler> that has two attributes to denote the starting
number and ending number of this ruler. This ends up
generating a monospace sequence of characters. We sometimes
use this above monspace code samples to denote what column
something occurs in.
Here is what is looks like if the element looked like
<columnRuler startNum="1" endNum="40"/>:
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4
Here is what is looks like if the element looked like
<columnRuler startNum="20" endNum="53"/>:
2----+----3----+----4----+----5---
So the single digits (1-4 and 6-9) are represented by dashes,
the 5s are reprensented by plusses, and the 10s places are
represented by their 1st digit (1 for 10, 2 for 20, etc.). I
don't believe that we would support anything over 100 since
that would be hard to represent.
Does anyone know if this is possible to do with XSL?
Any suggestions appreciated,
Cindy Hunt
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