Hi Roger,
The document contains an equation which might contain variables. If it
does contain variables, then I need to fetch their values and replace the
variables in the equation with their values and then compute the value of
the equation.
Have you done this kind of dynamic equation solving using XSLT? If so,
how did you do it?
<xsl:evaluate> can be used to accomplish this.
However, this poses a definite security risk -- the input may be an
"injection" aiming to obtain valuable sensitive information, or do harm via
side-effects.
Cheers,
Dimitre
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 11:48 AM Roger L Costello costello(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org
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xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I have XML documents like this:
<Convert-to-Celsius>
<equation>(Fahrenheit - 32) * (5/9)</equation>
<variable>
<name>Fahrenheit</name>
<value>32</value>
</variable>
</Convert-to-Celsius>
The document contains an equation which might contain variables. If it
does contain variables, then I need to fetch their values and replace the
variables in the equation with their values and then compute the value of
the equation.
Have you done this kind of dynamic equation solving using XSLT? If so, how
did you do it?
Any suggestions on how to approach this problem would be appreciated.
/Roger
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