Thanks heaps for that Kenny.  8-)

Fyi, the final xslt template was this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" indent="no"/>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<myoutput>
			<xsl:apply-templates/>
		</myoutput>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="mytag">
		<xsl:element name="mytag">
			<xsl:attribute name="duration">
				<xsl:choose>
					<xsl:when test="contains(@duration, 'days')">
						<xsl:value-of select="translate(@duration, '
days', '') * 8"/>
					</xsl:when>
					<xsl:otherwise>
						<xsl:value-of select="translate(@duration, '
hours','')"/>
					</xsl:otherwise>
				</xsl:choose>
			</xsl:attribute>
		</xsl:element>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


thanks

David.

--- Kenny Akridge <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't know how to do this in 2.0, but this works
> for 1.1(I believe it is
> 1.1).
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 		<myoutput>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates/>
> 		</myoutput>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 	<xsl:template match="mytag">
> 		<xsl:choose>
> 			<xsl:when test="contains(@duration, 'days')">
> <!-- translate ' days' to empty string, which leaves
> with an int -->
> <xsl:value-of select="translate(@duration, ' days',
> '') * 24"/>
> <br/>
> 			</xsl:when>
> 			<xsl:otherwise>
> <!-- ditto on ' hours' -->	
> 			<xsl:value-of select="translate(@duration, '
> hours',
> '')"/>
> 				<br/>
> 			</xsl:otherwise>
> 		</xsl:choose>
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Buddrige [mailto:dbuddrige@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:48 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  manipulating a property value
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have the following input document:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <info>
> 	<mytag duration="3 days" />
> 	<mytag duration="4 days" />
> 	<mytag duration="6 hours" />
> 	<mytag duration="33 hours" />
> 	<mytag duration="13 hours" />
> 	<mytag duration="5 days" />
> 	<mytag duration="3 hours" />
> 	<mytag duration="23 hours" />
> </info>
> 
> What I want to do, is to convert the output document
> so that all duration values are in hours, and
> without
> specifying the units.  So where a duration = "3
> days",
> I want to convert it to hours by multiplying it by
> 8,
> and dropping the units identifier.
> 
> Thus
> 
> 	<mytag duration="5 days" />
> 
> becomes
> 
> 	<mytag duration="40"/>
> 
> 
> And also
> 
> 	<mytag duration="6 hours"/>
> 
> becomes
> 
> 	<mytag duration="6"/>
> 
> 
> The xslt template I have written to [attempt] to do
> this is as follows:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 		<myoutput>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates/>
> 		</myoutput>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 	<xsl:template match="mytag">
> 		<xsl:choose>
> 			<xsl:when test="@duration='*days'"><!-- need to
> somehow strip off the 'days' and multiply remaining
> value by 8 --></xsl:when>
> 			<xsl:otherwise><!-- need to somehow strip off the
> 'hours' and return the remaining substring
> --></xsl:otherwise>
> 		</xsl:choose>
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> I note that XSLT 2.0 has regular expressions
> available
> that would make this alot easier - is there any way
> to
> do this with XSLT 1.x?
> 
> thanks heaps
> 
> David Buddrige
> 
> 
> 	
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