How can I assign my attribute value to a parameter to solve this sum problem?

I have <xsl:attribute> in my xsl code which looks like: 

<xsl:when test=".[mmisnumber $ieq$ 'True']">	

<td width="200" align="center">
  <xsl:attribute name="class">bglightgrey</xsl:attribute>
  <font size="2">
  <input type="text" size="10" onkeyup="javascript: forceNumeric(this);">
  <xsl:attribute name="id">data<xsl:value-of 
select="./mmid" />CTID<xsl:eval>
this.parentNode.parentNode.selectSingleNode
("./ctid").text;</xsl:eval>FDID<xsl:value-of 
select="./fabdatacontainer/fabdata/fdid" /></xsl:attribute>
					
  <xsl:attribute name="name">data<xsl:value-of 
select="./mmid" />CTID<xsl:eval>
this.parentNode.parentNode.selectSingleNode
("./ctid").text;</xsl:eval>FDID<xsl:value-of 
select="./fabdatacontainer/fabdata/fdid" /></xsl:attribute>
					
<xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of 
select="./fabdatacontainer/fabdata/fddata" /></xsl:attribute>					
</input>

<script type="text/javascript">			
	document.write(./fabdatacontainer/fabdata/fddata)
</script>
</font>
</td>	
</xsl:when>

My problem is I need to sum up the last attribute, <xsl:attribute name="value">. The sum should exclude the first node. For instance, if there are 3 values returned, the sum should include value2 and value3. I tried using sum:

But I get an error "unknown method" I guess this is because I use an outdated xml declaration and run it using IE 6.0:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">

The correct ones should be:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
version="1.0">

Note: If I changed to the updated declaration, my existing page won't appear at all.

So to solve the sum problem, I need to do it in Javascript. But I'm not sure how to assign the attribute value to a parameter. I know there is a way because when I add this script in my code, I can see the output of the attribute appear on the browser, which looks like
777

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888 999 (for this output, I need to sum up 888+999)

<script type="text/javascript">	
	document.write(./fabdatacontainer/fabdata/fddata)
</script>

I saw this online, but it doesn't seem to work with my existing code:

<script type="text/javascript">	
	var totalVal = xmlToSum.selectSingleNode("sum(//@value)") 
</script>

Client-side XSLT is notororiously platform specific for any non-trivial processing. If you can pre-process the XML on the server-side to differentiate the first value from subsequent ones, then the sum function will be more straightforward.

This was first published in September 2002

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