67349 - XPath sum() does not work in transformiix

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 67004

(Core :: XSLT, defect)

Description

[Sean Chitwood]

I have not been able to determine if this should or should not work in XSLT.

Sicking helped me develop a template to sum up a series of numbers in XSLT,
however on further exploration there seems to be a sum function in XPath

 "Function: number sum(node-set)
The sum function returns the sum, for each node in the argument node-set, of the
result of converting the string-values of the node to a number."


SO I tried to get <xsl:value-of select='sum(elem@value)'/> to work. Both
Sections 3 and 4 of the XSLT spec state that XPath is used, so I think this
should work. But either my syntax is wrong or there is a bug preventing it from
working.

Comment 1

[Keith Visco]

As with your last bug report you are missing a "/" in your XPath expression. 

And I'll make the same comment I made last time. We should report an error in 
your XPath expression if we do not already.

Thanks,

--Keith

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

So is the underlying problem still a problem here as well?

Comment 3

[Axel Hecht]

this is the same malformed XPath, therefor marking duplicate.

Axel

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67004 ***

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht]

bitching buttons, verfication spam