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Re: [xsl] More-than-basic maths

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On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:50:16PM -0400, andrew cooke wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I can't work out how to do more complex maths (like logarithms, trig
> functions, etc) in XSL.  Is it possible?  If not, is there any other tool
> I can use in an xml pipeline?  Is the only option writing SAX or DOM code
> in some non-dedicated programming language?
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> (I'm generating plots from XML data via XSL to SVG)

Check out exslt.org... I remember the's an extension library
for math functions.. not sure how efficient they are, but... :)
I'm not certain of how much added math functionality there is
in 2.0.  1.0 clean has very very little.


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> Thanks,
> Andrew
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