RE: [docbook-apps] Aligning numbers in table cells with xsl

Hi Dave,

 

that should work with a straight
forward xsl:choose statement and the XSL functions number(), string-length() and
substring() to convert your string to a double.

 

I.e. something like:

 

<xsl:template name=”StrToNumber”>

  <xsl:param
name=”str” />

  <xsl:choose>

     <xsl:when
test=”starts-with($str, ‘&lt;’) or starts-with($str, ‘&gt;’)”>

        <xsl:value-of
select=”number(substring($str, string-length(‘&lt;X’)))”
/>

     </xsl:when>

     <xsl:otherwise>

        <xsl:value-of
select=”number($str)” />

     </xsl:otherwise>

  </xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

 

Extensive testing is left
to the reader. J

 

Cheers,

Dominik

 

From: Xmplar [mailto:] 

Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 4:39 AM

To: Bob Stayton

Cc: DocBook Apps

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps]
Aligning numbers in table cells with xsl

 

I managed to (almost) fix the problem by adding a test
for NaN to the string variable:

<xsl:if test="(ancestor-or-self::d:table/@tabstyle = 'numbers' or 

      ancestor-or-self::d:table/@tabstyle =
'numberstripe') and not(ancestor::d:thead or

      ancestor::d:tfoot) and
preceding-sibling::d:entry and (string(number(.) != 'NaN'))">

This however will not select any cells that have a number and a non-numeric string (such as greater
than or less than signs: <1, or >20) - my test treats those cells as a string
and not as a number. I now need to find how to convert &lt; and &gt; to
a number so that the test selects cells with a number and a lt or gt sign.

On 24-05-12 4:24 PM, Bob Stayton wrote: 

<xsl:if
test="(ancestor-or-self::d:table/@tabstyle = 'numbers' or 

      ancestor-or-self::d:table/@tabstyle =
'numberstripe') and not(ancestor::d:thead or

      ancestor::d:tfoot) and
preceding-sibling::d:entry and string(number(.))">

 

-- 

Dave Gardiner

Xmplar



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