Re: How to calculate rowspan?

Hi Anton,

  <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="@Type='Dimesion'">
    <xsl:variable name="pos" select="position()"/>
    <xsl:variable name="val" select="."/>
    <xsl:if test="not(../preceding-sibling::*[1]/*[$pos and .=$val])">
     <xsl:variable name="rowspan" select="count(../following-sibling::*/*[$pos and .=$val])+1"/>
     <td rowspan="{$rowspan}">
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
     </td>
    </xsl:if>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
    <td>
     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </td>
   </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>

This will give you the output you want, for your sample input
but... it only works if your "Dimesion" values are unique.
Consider your first column (the "COL0" elements): A-A-A-B-B-C
This is OK. But if you would replace the last 'C' with an 'A'
(A-A-A-B-B-A) it doesn't work anymore because you would get
a rowspan="4" instead of 3.

I hope this solution is sufficient for you, because if you really
need to calculate only consecutive equal values, I'm stuck...

Best regards
Anton Triest