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<div class="refnamediv"><h2>length-spec</h2><p>
length-spec
 &#8212; Return a fully qualified length specification
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<div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a name="id36258277"></a><h2>Description</h2>

<p>The <code class="function">length-spec</code> template returns the
qualified length from a dimension. If an unqualified length is given,
the <a href="../fo/default.units.html"><em class="parameter"><code>default.units</code></em></a> will be added to it.
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<a name="length-spec.frag"></a><pre class="programlisting">
&lt;xsl:template name="length-spec"&gt;
  &lt;xsl:param name="length" select="'0pt'"&gt;&lt;/xsl:param&gt;
  &lt;xsl:param name="default.units" select="'px'"&gt;&lt;/xsl:param&gt;

  &lt;xsl:variable name="magnitude"&gt;
    &lt;xsl:call-template name="length-magnitude"&gt;
      &lt;xsl:with-param name="length" select="$length"&gt;&lt;/xsl:with-param&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:call-template&gt;
  &lt;/xsl:variable&gt;

  &lt;xsl:variable name="units"&gt;
    &lt;xsl:value-of select="substring($length, string-length($magnitude)+1)"&gt;&lt;/xsl:value-of&gt;
  &lt;/xsl:variable&gt;

  &lt;xsl:value-of select="$magnitude"&gt;&lt;/xsl:value-of&gt;
  &lt;xsl:choose&gt;
    &lt;xsl:when test="$units='cm'                     or $units='mm'                     or $units='in'                     or $units='pt'                     or $units='pc'                     or $units='px'                     or $units='em'"&gt;
      &lt;xsl:value-of select="$units"&gt;&lt;/xsl:value-of&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:when&gt;
    &lt;xsl:when test="$units = ''"&gt;
      &lt;xsl:value-of select="$default.units"&gt;&lt;/xsl:value-of&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:when&gt;
    &lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
      &lt;xsl:message&gt;
        &lt;xsl:text&gt;Unrecognized unit of measure: &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
        &lt;xsl:value-of select="$units"&gt;&lt;/xsl:value-of&gt;
        &lt;xsl:text&gt;.&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
      &lt;/xsl:message&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
  &lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
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