It's easy enough even in XSLT 1.0. Assuming the relevant bit_position is the
context node,
<td colspan="{number(substring-after(., ':')) - number(substring-before(.,
':'))}">
If you're using Saxon 6.5.5, then there's really no reason not to use Saxon
8.9 and take advantage of XSLT 2.0, which makes a lot of things much easier.
Though it doesn't make much difference in this case.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hooker [mailto:jeff(_at_)itwriting(_dot_)ca]
Sent: 22 October 2007 17:32
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Newbie: Extracting and evaluating partial
values from elements
Hi all,
I'm trying to take 32-bit registers that have been documented
as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<register>
<bit_postion>31:12</bit_postion>
<bit_postiont>11:9</bit_postion>
<bit_postion>8</bit_postion>
<bit_postion>7</bit_postion>
<bit_postion>6:1</bit_postion>
<bit_postion>0</bit_postion>
</register>
and turn them into a 32-column table where the number of bits
in each <bit_position> element is popluated into the a
colspan tag. This means that the first bit element would
result in <td colspan="19">, the third bit_position element
would result in <colspan='1'>, etc.
Getting the values out of the single-entry elements is easy;
if there's no colon, I know it only contains a single bit.
Getting the values when there IS a colon is driving me nuts.
I need to to extract the values, determine the difference,
and populate the colspan, and XSL's handling of
variables/parameters is very new and unfamiliar to me. Any
pointers on a good approach would be much apprecitated;
everything I've tried so far has ended up chasing its tail,
logically speaking.
I'm using Saxon 6.5.5, but would prefer to avoid using
extensions if possible.
Thanks in advance for any guidance.
(Yes, I know that that could have been avoided by adding
something like optional <high_value> and <low_value> elements
to the <bit_position> element, but the horses left the barn
on that one 6 years ago.)
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