Hi everyone,
I have a very important question to ask any of you XSLT Champs out there!

Below is a piece of code:

<xsl:template name="RomanNum">
<xsl:param name="RStr" />
<xsl:variable name="RS" select="$RStr"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$RS='I'">1</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$RS='II'">2</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$RS='III'">3</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$RS='IV'">4</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$RS"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

</xsl:template>


When I execute this code the value of $RS and RSTR is "I" which should be converted to simple numeric value "1". This however is not converting. I also have another function in xslt which is the same coding but it works. Below is the code:

<xsl:template name="long_date">
<xsl:param name="date" />

<!-- Month -->
<xsl:variable name="month"
select="substring($date, 1, string-length(substring-before($date, ' ')))"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$month='January'">01</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='February'">02</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='March'">03</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='April'">04</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='May'">05</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='June'">06</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='July'">07</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='August'">08</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='September'">09</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='October'">10</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='November'">11</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$month='December'">12</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>INVALID MONTH</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

This code above is working, but the one above it is not working. Can anyone help me?

Thanks
Swarup
(TL & Senior Programmer)

See the first sticky post in this forum about posing questions.

The XSLT snippet looks okay so you need to post the XML and the rest of the XSLT, preferably in a short form, so we can see what else is happening.

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Joe
http://joe.fawcett.name/

The code you have shown us looks correct. In other words, the problem is in the code you haven't shown us.

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

I know it's a but stupid question but could it be that 'I' (uppercase i) will be confused with 'l' (lowercase L)? I can see the I (uppercase i) in your XSL but what about the XML? Or some other character like 'І' (CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I).