Re: Having trouble getting a max( ) value

Vojtech,

Okay,, thanks,, what is the benefit to restrict p:variables in this way?


I'm confused now because in one of my templates I declare the following to
grab some processing time info that is stored within the xml. I declare this
near the end of my process and it works fine with the latest version of
calabash, although I haven't run that pipeline in Oxygen. From your
statements I gather this should not be working.. Is this different somehow?

 <p:group name="TimeToProcessOutput">
            <p:variable name="minutes" select="//processing/@minutes"/>
            <p:variable name="seconds" select="//processing/@seconds"/>
            <cx:message>
              <p:with-option name="message" select="concat('§§§   TIME TO
PROCESS Minutes: ',$minutes,'  Seconds: ',$seconds)"/>
            </cx:message>
          </p:group>


 I basically have to load a document that I'm only using to get the max
value and then load a different document to process further.

A solution is to load the doc in xslt and get the max value directly but I'd
rather extract the value in xproc and pass it within a parameter. How do I
do that in xproc?

Thanks
Alex



On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:50 AM, <vojtech.toman@emc.com> wrote:

> Alex,
>
>
>
> To answer your second question first, p:variable must always precede all
> step in the sub-pipeline. In your case, p:variable cannot follow p:load.
>
> This may be also related to your main problem, that you get an empty string
> as the result of the max() function. First, your example (p:group followed
> directly by p:variable) is not legal for the same reasons as above. If for
> some reason Calabash does not reject this (which it should), then my bet is
> that an empty document is used as the context for p:variable, which would
> explain the empty string result.
>
>
>
> Vojtech
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Vojtech Toman
>
> Consultant Software Engineer
>
> EMC | Information Intelligence Group
>
> vojtech.toman@emc.com
>
> http://developer.emc.com/xmltech
>
>
>
> *From:* xproc-dev-request@w3.org [mailto:xproc-dev-request@w3.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Alex Muir
> *Sent:* Friday, May 20, 2011 1:38 PM
> *To:* XProc Dev
> *Subject:* Having trouble getting a max( ) value
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> So I want to start off a pipeline by getting a maximum value to use later
> on in the process via the following max(//page/id) which works in oxygen as
> an xpath on the input file returning a value around 15000. I've verified the
> correct input file is loading. In the following code however the value
> returned is a zero length string. So what am I doing wrong?
>
>  <p:group name="extractMaxID">
>
>     <p:load>
>       <p:with-option name="href"
> select="$hrefFullWikiDumpInputToGetMaxIDValue"/>
>     </p:load>
>
>   </p:group>
>
>   <p:variable name="MaxID" select="max(//page/id)"/>  // is returning a
> zero length string
>
>
> Secondly when I put the variable within the p:group I get the following
> error using Oxygen XML Editor 12.1, build 2011011116
>
> E [Calabash XProc] Unexpected step name: p:variableUnexpected step name:
> p:variable.
>
> <p:group name="extractMaxID">
>
>     <p:load>
>       <p:with-option name="href"
> select="$hrefFullWikiDumpInputToGetMaxIDValue"/>
>     </p:load>
>    <p:variable name="MaxID" select="max(//page/id)"/>
>
> </p:group>
>
> Is that normal? (hmm..I almost recall this may have already been talked
> about on the list, sorry if that's the case)
>
>
> Regards
>
> --
>
> Alex Muir
> Instructor
> Program Organizer
> University Technology Student Work Experience Building
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>
> +220 359 1203
>
>
>


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