Re: Replicating parent elements in table with children

Alan K. Gay wrote:
> I have a parent <table> that can have zero to infinite <table1>.  I'm
> trying to create an html table that, for each occurrence of <table1>,
> has the contents of <table> and <table1>.  If there are no occurrences
> of <table1>, I still need the contents of <table>.   Below is sample
> input and desired output.  
> 
> I need help with the looping/xpath approach to make this happen.  Thanks
> in advance for any assistance.
> 
> <NewDataSet>
> 	<Table>
> 		<AvgScore>323</AvgScore>
> 		<Table1>
> 			<DeliveryID>4102</DeliveryID>
> 		</Table1>
> 		<Table1>
> 			<DeliveryID>4103</DeliveryID>
> 		</Table1>
> 		<Table1>
> 			<DeliveryID>4104</DeliveryID>
> 		</Table1>
> 	</Table>
> 	<Table>
> 		<AvgScore>975</AvgScore>
> 	</Table>
> </NewDataSet>
> 
> <table>
> <tr><td>323</td><td>4102</td></tr>
> <tr><td>323</td><td>4103</td></tr>
> <tr><td>323</td><td>4104</td></tr>
> <tr><td>975</td></tr>
> </table>

Hmm, not that hard. There are various combinations of apply-templates and
for-each that you could use to achieve the same result. Here's one of them:

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="NewDataSet/Table"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Table">
  <xsl:variable name="avg" select="string(AvgScore)"/>
  <xsl:for-each select="Table1/DeliveryID">
    <tr>
      <td>
        <xsl:value-of select="$avg"/>
      </td>
      <td>
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

But let me guess.. MSXML2 / IE5, right? no xsl:variable, no string()...
take out the xsl:variable and change "$avg" to "../../AvgScore"

With some additional magic you could fill in the missing cells, but it's not
strictly necessary, with most browsers' forgiving table rendering engines.

   - Mike
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