Re: Complicated Table

Thanks!!!







--- Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Millie,
> 
> > It's not even slightly clear to me where to start.
> How do the
> > attributes like "numcols" and "numrows" figure in,
> not to mention
> > how do you connect the variable "num" from
> column_info to the num
> > from the rows?
> 
> I'd just ignore the numcols and numrows attributes.
> You don't need
> them to turn this XML into an table in HTML or
> XSL-FO. Just think of
> the mapping between the elements in your XML and the
> HTML or XSL-FO
> you want to create. For example for HTML:
> 
>          table  =>  table
>    column_info  =>  th
>            row  =>  tr
>         column  =>  td
> 
> Then for each of those mappings create a template:
> 
> <xsl:template match="table">
>   <table>
>     <caption><xsl:value-of select="@name"
> /></caption>
>     <tr>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="column_info" />
>     </tr>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="row" />
>   </table>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="column_info">
>   <th><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></th>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="row">
>   <tr><xsl:apply-templates /></tr>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="column">
>   <td><xsl:apply-templates /></td>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Something similar would apply for XSL-FO, but the
> names of the
> elements that you generate would be different.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeni
> 
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
> 
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