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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] How to do... regular 1 to n loops, 0 instead of null,
 There are a few problems I have found hard to do using XSL that I have some dodgy workarounds for, but I expect some more experienced people will know a better way. 1) How to do regular programming loops, like for i = 1 to 10 For example I needed to do this recently to do a 16x16 grid to display a class C network. I can only see how to loop on XML nodes, so I had to create a nodeset like: <rows><row/><row/>....<row/></rows> 2) When a node doesn't exist I want to get zero instead of null A good solution seems to be to use sum(...), but this only works if you pass it a nodeset. Sometimes I'm inside a template that may be passed a nodeset or maybe a number. The simplest way I figured then was number(concat('0', ...)) but this seems less than ideal. 3) How to get maximum element of a list? (or minimum) Best solution found was something like the following, which seems quite long and complicated: <xsl:variable name="max"> <xsl:for-each select="nodes"> <xsl:sort order="descending"/> <xsl:if test="position() = 1"><xsl:value-of select="text()"/></xsl:if> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:variable> 4) How to succinctly call templates with parameters? Is there a neat and short way to call a template? The following seems awfully long-winded: <xsl:call-template name="show-trend"> <xsl:with-parameter name="curval">10</xsl:with-parameter> <xsl:with-parameter name="prevval">1</xsl:with-parameter> </xsl:call-template> I'd love to be able to do: <xsl:call-template name="show-trend" curval="10" prevval="1"/> But that doesn't work :-( Any workarounds? 5) How to sort so nulls come at top not bottom? Say I have <fred size="10"/><fred size="11"/><fred/> If you use <xsl:sort select="@size"/> then the fred with no size comes at the end. How can I make it come at the beginning? Thanks for any help, Paul -- Paul Johnston Internet Security Specialist Westpoint Limited Albion Wharf, 19 Albion Street, Manchester, M1 5LN England Tel: +44 (0)161 237 1028 Fax: +44 (0)161 237 1031 email: paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: www.westpoint.ltd.uk 
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