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Re: XSL Challenge

  • From: CP XML <cpxml@y...>
  • To: James Clark <jjc@j...>, Roger Costello <costello@m...>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:55:04 -0700 (PDT)

xsl rows and column
Hi Folks,

This didn't work for me (I am using IE5). Can anybody give me the
correct working version of this application. Thanks so much.

-Swamy

--- James Clark <jjc@j...> wrote:
> You have to use the variables feature of the current
> WD. Replace the
> second TR element in your attempted solution by the
> following:
> 
> 
>        <TR>
>           <xsl:variable name="cols" expr="Column"/>
>           <xsl:for-each
> select="../../Columns/Column">
>              <TD>
>                  <xsl:variable name="colname"
> expr="@name"/>
>                  <xsl:value-of
> select="$cols[@name=$colname]"/>
>              </TD>
>           </xsl:for-each>
>        </TR>
> 
> 
> Roger Costello wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > Are you up for a mind-bending XSL problem? 
> Someone presented
> > me with this problem several weeks ago and I have
> yet to find
> > a solution.  It looks simple.  It is deceptively
> challenging.
> > 
> > An XML document stores database data as follows:
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <DynamicTable>
> >         <Columns>
> >                 <Column name="col1"/>
> >                 <Column name="col2"/>
> >         </Columns>
> >         <Rows>
> >             <Row>
> >                 <Column name="col1">A</Column>
> >                 <Column name="col3">B</Column>
> >                 <Column name="col2">C</Column>
> >             </Row>
> >             <Row>
> >                 <Column name="col2">S</Column>
> >                 <Column name="col1">E</Column>
> >             </Row>
> >             <Row>
> >                 <Column name="col5">R</Column>
> >                 <Column name="col2">G</Column>
> >                 <Column name="col1">Q</Column>
> >             </Row>
> >         </Rows>
> > </DynamicTable>
> > 
> > Note that the columns that we are interested in
> are col1 and col2.
> > A <Row> element may contain data from columns not
> of interest.
> > But, it will always contain at least data for col1
> and col2.
> > 
> > The problem is to create an XSL stylesheet that
> generates an
> > HTML table with a table header:
> > 
> >            col1   col2
> > 
> > and within the table it has the row data.  So the
> HTML table
> > should look like this:
> > 
> >            col1    col2
> >            A       C
> >            E       S
> >            Q       G
> > 
> > I have shown an XML document which has just two
> columns.  However,
> > the XSL stylesheet needs to be generic and capable
> of handling
> > XML documents with any number of columns (as
> listed in the <Columns>
> > section).
> > /Roger
> > 
> > P.S.  Below is what I tried, which doesn't work.
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
> >                 result-ns="html">
> >     <xsl:template match="DynamicTable">
> >             <HTML>
> >             <HEAD>
> >             <TITLE>Dynamic Table</TITLE>
> >             </HEAD>
> >             <BODY>
> >                 <TABLE BORDER="1" WIDTH="50%">
> >                     <TR>
> >                         <xsl:for-each
> select="Columns/Column">
> >                             <TH><xsl:value-of
> select="@name"/></TH>
> >                         </xsl:for-each>
> >                     </TR>
> >                     <xsl:for-each
> select="Rows/Row">
> >                         <TR>
> >                             <xsl:for-each
> select="../../Columns/Column">
> >                                 <TD><xsl:value-of
> > 
> >
> select="../../Rows/Row/Column[@name='{@name}']"/></TD>
> >                             </xsl:for-each>
> >                         </TR>
> >                     </xsl:for-each>
> >                 </TABLE>
> >             </BODY>
> >             </HTML>
> >     </xsl:template>
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
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