Re: Looping using XSL

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Subject: Re: Looping using XSL
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:33:36 -0400

Josh,

This is something shameful, but it works:

<xsl:template match="mood">
  <xsl:for-each select="//*[position() &lt;= rating]">
    <div class="moodbar">
      <img src="layout/global/pics/mood-red.gif" alt="" />
    </div>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

When this was first introduced a couple of years back, there was a discussion of how best to get a large enough set of nodes (the critical bit to avoid having this trick be painfully expensive ... *at least* bind that //* to a variable to avoid traversing it all the time):

<xsl:variable name="plentynodes" select="//*"/>

<xsl:for-each select="$plentynodes[position() <= rating]">...

Note: it is *not* a loop, and is only iteration in some particular sense.

Enjoy,
Wendell

At 11:05 PM 10/1/2002, you wrote:

I am trying to use a number in an xml file to define the number of times an image gets placed on the page. As the number appears only once and there are no nodes to count or group I'm a little bit stuck.
The XML looks like this:
<mood>
  <rating>5</rating>
</mood>
In this case I want to put five iterations of the image on screen like this:

<div class="moodbar"><img src="layout/global/pics/mood-red.gif" alt="" /></div> <div class="moodbar"><img src="layout/global/pics/mood-red.gif" alt="" /></div> <div class="moodbar"><img src="layout/global/pics/mood-red.gif" alt="" /></div> <div class="moodbar"><img src="layout/global/pics/mood-red.gif" alt="" /></div> <div class="moodbar"><img src="layout/global/pics/mood-red.gif" alt="" /></div>

Is there a way of doing this so if the number is changed (with a max of 17 possible) the number of images will change?


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Looping using XSL Josh Campbell - Tue, 1 Oct 2002 23:03:43 -0400 (EDT) Wendell Piez - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:36:41 -0400 (EDT) <= <Possible follow-ups> Vasu Chakkera - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:28:32 -0400 (EDT) Josh Campbell - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:20:05 -0400 (EDT) Wendell Piez - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:14:09 -0400 (EDT) Jeni Tennison - Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:21:40 -0400 (EDT)

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