RE: Dynamic Tables in FO

Thanks Jeni, I actually found out what was wrong, I had to change the code
so that the match for jncTable existed in the for each (for some unknown
reason) so I have:

<xsl:template name="111">
	<fo:block font-size="9pt">
		<fo:table>
			<fo:table-column column-width="20mm"/>
			<fo:table-column column-width="90mm"/>
			<fo:table-column column-width="30mm"/>
			<fo:table-body>
			<xsl:choose>
				<xsl:when test="//section/@number='11.1'">"
				<xsl:for-each
select="//jncTable/jncTableRow">
					<fo:table-row>
						<xsl:for-each
select="jncTableHeader | jncTableItem">
							<fo:table-cell>
	
<fo:block><xsl:value-of select="." /></fo:block>
							</fo:table-cell>
						</xsl:for-each>
					</fo:table-row>
				</xsl:for-each>
				</xsl:when>
			</xsl:choose>
			</fo:table-body>
		</fo:table>
	</fo:block>
</xsl:template>

It seems the template declaration for match="jncTable" was causing the
problem.

Thanks,
Anthony Ikeda,
Web Application Developer,
Proxima Technology,

Level 13,
181 Miller Street,
North Sydney
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 21 December 2000 9:40 PM
> To: Anthony Ikeda
> Cc: Xsl-List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re:  Dynamic Tables in FO
> 
> 
> Hi Anthony,
> 
> > Okay, I have some XML code that represents a table structure syntax,
> > much the way it does in html. However, I'm having problems
> > generating the code to PDF.
> 
> One possibility is that you're creating empty table rows, which aren't
> allowed.  The relevant part of the XSLT is:
> 
> >  <xsl:for-each select="./jncTableRow">
> >     <fo:table-row>
> >        <!-- headers section... -->
> >        <xsl:for-each select="./jncTableHeader">
> >           <fo:table-cell>
> >              <fo:block>
> >                 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> >              </fo:block>
> >           </fo:table-cell>
> >        </xsl:for-each>
> >        <!-- ...headers section -->
> >      </fo:table-row>
> >      <fo:table-row>
> >        <!-- data section... -->
> >        <xsl:for-each select="./jncTableItem">
> >           <fo:table-cell>
> >              <fo:block>
> >                 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> >              </fo:block>
> >           </fo:table-cell>
> >        </xsl:for-each>
> >        <!-- ...data section -->
> >      </fo:table-row>
> >    </xsl:for-each>
> 
> Here, you're going through each jncTableRow in your XML source, and
> for each of them first making a row that holds cells for each of the
> jncTableHeader elements it holds and then making a row that holds
> cells for each of the jncTableItem elements it holds.  If you look at
> your source XML, only the first jncTableRow holds jncTableHeader
> elements, and it doesn't hold any jncTableItem elements.  So the first
> jncTableRow creates one row with cells in it for each of the headers,
> and another row with nothing in; the rest of the jncTableRows create
> one row with nothing in, and another row holding the items.
> 
> What you want to do is have each of the jncTableRows create a row with
> the a cell for each of the jncTableHeader *or* jncTableItem elements
> that it holds.  [As an aside, you can also stop putting ./ at the
> front of each XPath: it's completely redundant and will just slow
> things down.]  So, you want something like:
> 
>   <xsl:for-each select="jncTableRow">
>      <fo:table-row>
>         <xsl:for-each select="jncTableHeader | jncTableItem">
>            <fo:table-cell>
>               <fo:block><xsl:value-of select="." /></fo:block>
>            </fo:table-cell>
>         </xsl:for-each>
>      </fo:table-row>
>   </xsl:for-each>
> 
> I've no idea whether that will help as I know nothing about XSL-FO,
> but it's probably worth a shot.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeni
> 
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
> 
> 

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