RE: Show a column only if the total is not zero

If you're not worried about performance then this is a doddle. I'll give the
schema-aware XSLT 2.0 version and leave you to retrofit it:

<xsl:template match="person/element(*, xs:decimal)
                     [sum(../../person/*[name()=name(current())]) != 0]">
<td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
</xsl:template>

That's a template that matches all children of <person> whose schema type is
xs:decimal. You need another version (that does nothing) for the case where
the total is zero.

(There's another 2.0 dependency buried in here, by the way: current() is not
allowed in 1.0 match patterns.)

However, this calculates the total amount of overtime once for each record,
which is O(n^2). To do better than this, calculate the totals first, and
pass a list of the names of excluded elements (in 1.0 you could represent
this list as a space-separated string) as a parameter to each of the
templates.

Michael Kay

   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Huxtable [mailto:huxtabler@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 18 May 2004 13:10
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Show a column only if the total is not zero
> 
> The costs on a project look like this.
> 
> <person>
>    <name>Adam</name>
>    <fees>134.25</fees>
>    <overtime>0.00</overtime>
>    <travel>39.25</travel>
> </person>
> <person>
>    <name>Brian</name>
>    <fees>172.50</fees>
>    <overtime>0.00</overtime>
>    <travel>52.75</travel>
> </person>
> <person>
>    <name>Chris</name>
>    <fees>103.75</fees>
>    <overtime>0.00</overtime>
>    <travel>0.00</travel>
> </person>
> 
> I would like the report on the project to look like this.
> 
> name		fees		travel
> Adam		134.25		39.25
> Brian		172.50		52.75
> Chris		103.75		0.00
> Total		410.50		92.00
> 
> There was no overtime on this project so I don't want it 
> shown. I should
> be most grateful for any suggestions on the best way to show 
> the columns
> where the total is not zero. (In practice I have more than 3 types of
> cost.) 
> Many thanks.