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# Wednesday, 17 February 2010

The very same simple tasks tend to appear in different languages (e.g. C# Haiku). Now we have to find:

  • integer and fractional part of a decimal;
  • length and precision of a decimal.

These tasks have no trivial solutions in xslt 2.0.

At present we have came up with the following answers:

Fractional part:

<xsl:function name="t:fraction" as="xs:decimal">
  <xsl:param name="value" as="xs:decimal"/>

  <xsl:sequence select="$value mod 1"/>
</xsl:function>

Integer part v1:

<xsl:function name="t:integer" as="xs:decimal">
  <xsl:param name="value" as="xs:decimal"/>

  <xsl:sequence select="$value - t:fraction($value)"/>
</xsl:function>

Integer part v2:

<xsl:function name="t:integer" as="xs:decimal">
  <xsl:param name="value" as="xs:decimal"/>

  <xsl:sequence select="
    if ($value ge 0) then
      floor($value)
    else
      -floor(-$value)"/>
</xsl:function>

Length and precision:

<!--
  Gets a decimal specification as a closure:
    ($length as xs:integer, $precision as xs:integer).
-->
<xsl:function name="t:decimal-spec" as="xs:integer+">
  <xsl:param name="value" as="xs:decimal"/>

  <xsl:variable name="text" as="xs:string" select="
    if ($value lt 0) then
      xs:string(-$value)
    else
      xs:string($value)"/>

  <xsl:variable name="length" as="xs:integer"
    select="string-length($text)"/>
  <xsl:variable name="integer-length" as="xs:integer"
    select="string-length(substring-before($text, '.'))"/>
 
  <xsl:sequence select="
    if ($integer-length) then
      ($length - 1, $length - $integer-length - 1)
    else
      ($length, 0)"/>
</xsl:function>

The last function looks odious. In many other languages its implementation would be considered as embarrassing.

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