Hi XML gurus

 I want to know how to solve linear equations using XSLT. I am sending you sample XML below. Please help me or send me link to solve it in XSLT. I want to write XSLT that solves linear equation.



<?xmlversion=”1.0”encoding=”UTF#8722;8”? >
<linearEquationxmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#8722;instance”
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=”>
<LHS>
    <row>
        <entry value=”0.0” />
        <entry value=”1.0” />
    </row>
    <row>
        <entry value=”1.0” />
        <entry value=”2.0” />
    </row>
</LHS>
<RHS>
    <entry value=”5.3” />
    <entry value=”2.8” />
</RHS>
</linearEquation>

This list might be a good place for meeting XML experts, but I don't think you can assume that every XML expert knows how to solve linear equations. I think I once knew, but that was about 40 years ago, and it's not a skill you retain if you don't use it.

If you can tell us the rules you want your transformation to obey, then perhaps we can show you how to express these in XSLT.

It's probably worth studying Dimitre Novatchev's work on FXSL.

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

Hi

 Thank you so much for your reply. Actually I want to write an XSLT stylesheet that solves linear equations using the LUP decomposition method (Thomas Cormen, Charles Leiserson and Ronald
Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms MIT 1994), pp. 749).

I already send you the sample XML which i want to convert. Please help me i urgently need some hints, links, clues how to do it. I am good in XML, XSLT and related technology but this linear equation thing is something i have never done before. Looking for quick reply.