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Re: Breaking up is hard to do.

Subject: Re: Breaking up is hard to do.
From: "Steve Muench" <smuench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:18:00 -0800
breaking hard to td
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|     I am unable to generate a </tr><tr> in my output.
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Here's a simple way to do it that works like
your brain might be thinking. It depends
on using the:

  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">

to *force* text into the result without being
quoted by the processor. In this case the text
you want to force into the result is:

  </tr><tr>

at the strategic point when you hit your threshold
of maximum number of columns.

Given the input document of:

<data>
  <field>1</field>
  <field>2</field>
  <field>3</field>
  <field>4</field>
  <field>5</field>
  <field>6</field>
  <field>7</field>
  <field>8</field>
  <field>9</field>
  <field>10</field>
</data>

The stylesheet below (which is parameterized
to allow specifying the max number of columns
for the current "run") gives output like:

<html>
   <body>
      <table>
         <tr>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>2</td>
            <td>3</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>4</td>
            <td>5</td>
            <td>6</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>7</td>
            <td>8</td>
            <td>9</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>10</td>
         </tr>
      </table>
   </body>
</html>

===============[ cut ]===================

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

  <xsl:param name="max" select="number(3)"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html><body><xsl:apply-templates/></body></html>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="data">
    <table>
      <tr>
      <xsl:for-each select="field">
        <td><xsl:apply-templates/></td>
        <xsl:if test="position() mod $max = 0 and position()!=last()">
          <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[</tr><tr>]]></xsl:text>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:for-each>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

_________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager & XML Evangelist
Business Components for Java Development Team



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