On Jul 3, 9:43=A0am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Larry Sulky wrote:
> > On Jul 3, 8:20 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> >> I did already suggest
>
> >> <xsl:variable name=3D"bboxWidth"
> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 as=3D"xs:decimal"
> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 select=3D"xs:decimal($bboxTokens[3=
]) -
> >> xs:decimal($bboxTokens[1])"/>
>
> >> where xs:decimal($bboxTokens[3]) casts the third item in the $bboxToke=
ns
> >> sequence to a decimal.
> > Your suggestion didn't work at first. It gave me this error:
>
> > "Type error, value does not match a required type as specified
> > by the matching rules in 2.5.4 Sequence Type Matching.
> > - 'xs:decimal' "
>
> > But then I removed the as=3D attribute:
>
> > <xsl:variable name=3D"bboxWidth"
> > =A0 select=3D"xs:decimal($bboxTokens[3]) - xs:decimal($bboxTokens[1])"/=
>
>
> > and then it worked perfectly. So I'm a little confused, but
> > grateful! :-)
>
> I am not sure why you get that error.
> When I try this XML document
>
> <foo bbox=3D"1,2,3,4"/>
>
> against this XSLT
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> =A0 =A0xmlns:xsl=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> =A0 =A0version=3D"2.0"
> =A0 =A0xmlns:xs=3D"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
>
> =A0 =A0<xsl:template match=3D"foo">
> =A0 =A0 =A0<xsl:variable name=3D"bboxTokens" as=3D"xs:string*"
> select=3D"tokenize(@bbox, ',')"/>
> =A0 =A0 =A0<xsl:variable name=3D"bboxWidth"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 as=3D"xs:decimal"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 select=3D"xs:decimal($bboxTokens[3]) =
-
> xs:decimal($bboxTokens[1])"/>
> =A0 =A0 =A0<xsl:value-of select=3D"$bboxWidth"/>
> =A0 =A0</xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> then it runs fine with Saxon 9 and AltovaXML tools 2009.
>
> --
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Interesting. With as=3D"xs:string*", your sample works; with
as=3D"xs:string" (no asterisk), it does not.
Must an asterisk always be appended to the value in the as=3D attribute?