Re: sorting & styling

This approach fails if you need sorting as was requested in this case.

Kay Michael wrote:
> 
> >
> > Sort, once, a list of elements and generate a table with the
> > sorted list, with the number of elements per row given in the stylesheet:
> >
> This falls into the general category of "grouping problems", they can be
> done in XSLT but it isn't easy.
> 
> You need something like
> 
> <xsl:template name="do-the-rest">
>   <xsl:param name="start"/>
>   <xsl:param name="count"/>
>   <tr>
>   <xsl:for-each select="item[position()&gt;=$start and
> position()&lt;$start+$count">
>     <td>
>     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>     </td>
>   </xsl:for-each>
>   </tr>
>   <xsl:if test="$start + $count - 1 &lt; last()">
>   <xsl:call-template name="do-the-rest">
>     <xsl:with-param name="start" select="$start + $count"/>
>     <xsl:with-param name="count" select="$count"/>
>   </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="data">
>   <xsl:call-template name="do-the-rest">
>     <xsl:with-param name="start" select="1"/>
>     <xsl:with-param name="count" select="2"/>
>   </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Mike Kay
> 
> 
> 
> > For example:
> >
> > <data>
> > <item>b</item>
> > <item>a</item>
> > <item>d</item>
> > <item>c</item>
> > </data>
> >
> > gives, with 2 elements per row:
> >
> > <table>
> > <tr> <td>a</td> <td>b</td> </tr>
> > <tr> <td>c</td> <td>d</td> </tr>
> > </table>
> >
> >
> > Olivier
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Olivier Corby, Acacia project, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
> > email : Olivier.Corby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx tel : +33 4 92 38 78 71
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> 
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