• To: Oleg Dulin <oleg@c...>
• Subject: Re: Xml Calculations
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:06:41 -0400
• Cc: John Bailo <jabailo@e...>, xml-dev@l...
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XSLT can be used for this. I think XQuery is often more readable for 
this kind of thing.

Look at Use Case "R" for an example of how XQuery can be used for 
calculations and correlating data from XML files:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-use-cases/#rdb

You can compare these to their solutions in XSLT as presented in Sal 
Mangano's book:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xsltckbk/chapter/ch07.pdf

Jonathan

Oleg Dulin wrote:

> Why not use XSLT for this ?
> 
> 
> John Bailo wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way in Xml to specify a means for doing calculations using, 
>> say, the attributes of two nodes in the document...a kind of Xml 
>> 'method' ?

• References:
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  • Re: Xml Calculations
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