using a param to determine how many columns to output.

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From: "Simon Harvey" <harvey_simon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:04:35 +0000

Hi there,

I have written a template which matches elements and creates a table for each element which contains all the info from the XML document element I am interested in and this works fine.

The problem is that I want to be able to create another table and populate this second table's rows and columns with the tables returned by the first template I refer to above.

I have managed to stick the first set of tables in to the second but my problem comes in using a parameter to determine how many columns should appear in the table.

Usually when programming I would expect to use a for loop using the parameter as a test for a counter which would create a new row for each say 2 elements. But I can't do this in XSLT...

I had a go using the element position in the array element to try do this but am still getting nowhere...

anyone able to suggest a suitable approach to solving this?
It's very annoying to be so close to the requirement!!!!

This is the template I have made (I hope this looks ok in a browser!)

<xsl:template name="findAndExtractPageModelItemsIntoTable"> <xsl:for-each select="void"> <xsl:if test="string(@property)='pageItemModels'"> <table border="10"> <tr>   <xsl:for-each select="array/void">  <xsl:variable name="arrayIndex" select="@index + 1"/> arrayIndex = <xsl:value-of select="$arrayIndex" /> <br /> <xsl:if test="$arrayIndex <=$cols" > <td><xsl:call-template name="extractReportPageModelItem"/></td>

</xsl:if> <xsl:if test="$arrayIndex >=$cols" >

<td><xsl:call-template name="extractReportPageModelItem"/></td></tr>

</xsl:if>



</xsl:for-each>



</table>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

the logic being:


For each void //void  is an element
{
   if (void is a "PageItem")
  {
           create table tag
                       create an open row tag

for each array/void //the element or node where I know the PageItem data is { if this node position <= cols { <td>call the template which returns a table itself </td> } if this node position >= cols { <td>call the template which returns a table itself </td><close row tag> } } close the table tags } }

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using a param to determine how many columns to output... Simon Harvey - 14 Dec 2004 17:05:18 -0000 <= David Carlisle - 14 Dec 2004 17:13:23 -0000

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