<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>length-magnitude</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../reference.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Reference Documentation"><link rel="up" href="generallibrary.html" title="General Library Templates"><link rel="prev" href="idref.html" title="idref"><link rel="next" href="length-units.html" title="length-units"><link rel="copyright" href="copyright.html" title="License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">length-magnitude</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="idref.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">General Library Templates</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="length-units.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="length-magnitude"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>length-magnitude</h2><p>length-magnitude — Return the unqualified dimension from a length specification</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="d0e33293"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>The <code class="function">length-magnitude</code> template returns the unqualified length ("20" for "20pt") from a dimension. </p><a name="length-magnitude.frag"></a><pre class="programlisting"> <xsl:template name="length-magnitude"> <xsl:param name="length" select="'0pt'"></xsl:param> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="string-length($length) = 0"></xsl:when> <xsl:when test="substring($length,1,1) = '0' or substring($length,1,1) = '1' or substring($length,1,1) = '2' or substring($length,1,1) = '3' or substring($length,1,1) = '4' or substring($length,1,1) = '5' or substring($length,1,1) = '6' or substring($length,1,1) = '7' or substring($length,1,1) = '8' or substring($length,1,1) = '9' or substring($length,1,1) = '.'"> <xsl:value-of select="substring($length,1,1)"></xsl:value-of> <xsl:call-template name="length-magnitude"> <xsl:with-param name="length" select="substring($length,2)"></xsl:with-param> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:when> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> </pre></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="idref.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="generallibrary.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="length-units.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">idref </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> length-units</td></tr></table></div></body></html>