changing numeric string to number not possible?

Brian Campbell · November 16th, 2006, 05:56 PM

i have two xml nodes...

Code:

<number>2</number >
<remainder>5</remainder >

i want to concat them and then multiply the result by 20...

Code:

<xsl:variable name="rating" select="number(concat(number,'.',remainder)) * 20"/>

it's still seeing it as a string and setting "rating" = NaN. How should i approach this differently?

mhkay · November 16th, 2006, 06:36 PM

There's nothing wrong with your code as shown. Perhaps the context node isn't the parent of these two elements?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference