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Posted to general@xml.apache.org by Steve Cohen <St...@ignitemedia.com> on 2000/10/30 22:44:54 UTC

Preventing arithmetic parsing of expressions that look like arith metic

I define a parameter in a stylesheet:

<xsl:param name="season" select="2000-01"/> <!-- default season -->

When I output the value of "$season" somewhere, I get "1999".  It is
performing the subtraction it thinks I want.  Is there some way to prevent
this from happening?  I want to have a single parameter, called "season" to
be interpreted as a string.

Steve Cohen
Sr. Software Engineer
Ignite Sports Media
stevec@ignitemedia.com

Re: Preventing arithmetic parsing of expressions that look like arithmetic

Posted by Steve Muench <St...@oracle.com>.

Use single quotes for a literal number...

So instead of:

| <xsl:param name="season" select="2000-01"/> <!-- default season -->

Use:

<xsl:param name="season" select="'2000-01'"/>

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