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Re: [xsl] Establishing the floor of a range a number belongs to

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On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 02:03:25PM -0700, Mark scripsit:
> I am parsing around 3500 numbers and want to be able to establish
> the floor of the range each number belongs to. For instance, 326
> belongs to the range "300-399" and its floor is "300", the value I
> want. Another example would be 1627, whose range is 1600-1699 and
> whose floor is 1600. I failed to find the right combination of XPath
> math functions [mode(), floor()], etc., to do this.
[snip, yeah, that is indeed painful]
> What function or combination of functions do I need to accomplish my goal?

What's wrong with 

replace(CatNumbers/@scott-number,'\d\d$','00')

Which will replace the last two digits with zeros?

Alternatively,

floor(CatNumbers/@scott-number / 100) * 100

ought to do it.

-- Graydon

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