RE: rookie questions - Try 2

Whoa, hold on.  What was suggested below is conformant XSLT (although
support for disable-output-escaping is not required in all implementation
scenarios).  There's nothing there that is specific to MSXML.

That said, I do think this is a sub-optimal solution, simply because it uses
disable-output-escaping, and therefore may not work in all scenarios.

A better approach would loook like:

  <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 1">
    <TR>
      <TD>filter name</TD><TD>selection</TD>
      <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::*[1]">
        <TD>filter name</TD><TD>selection</TD>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </TR>
  </xsl:if> 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Nordrum [mailto:noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:57 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: rookie questions - Try 2
> 
> 
> That works, but I REFUSE to put that in my code(no offense 
> intended :>). I am
> slightly disapointed with the lack of responses to this 
> request. The only
> working example of this that I have seen is using MSXSL. Most 
> everybody was
> jumping all over the MS only requests, but as I see it, the 
> MSXSLT is more
> powerful than the "current spec" XSLT if such simple tasks as 
> this cannot be
> done easily. Is it that the current spec is lacking features, 
> possibly. All I
> know is I want to put items in a grid. The MSXSL way is 
> doable, with example,
> and the "current spec" way has yielded no progress. I'm 
> starting to think that
> XSL isn't as powerfull as people have been saying.
> 
> 
> Noah
> 
> xsl questions wrote:
> 
> > This may not win any awards for elegance but it works:
> >
> > I had a for-each loop that printed
> > <filter name> <filter selection>
> > where name was simply text and selection could be a 
> drop-down or free form
> > text entry.  I wanted to switch to
> > <filter name> <filter selection> <filter name> <filter selection>
> >
> > What I did was:
> > <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 1">
> >     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping = "yes" >&lt;TR&gt;</xsl:text>
> >     <code to print filter name and selection>
> >
> > and then
> > <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 0">
> >     <code to print filter name and selection>
> >     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping = "yes" 
> >&lt;/TR&gt;</xsl:text>
> >
> > I could not simply print the <TR> or </TR> because then the 
> <TR> would come
> > in one if statement and the </TR> in the other if statement and this
> > apparently is illegal.  More elegant solutions are always 
> appreciated, but
> > this works.
> >
> > Also - if there are any other new-users browsing this list 
> don't let any
> > &nbsp tags slip in to your code or you will have funky 
> browser-specific
> > formatting issues.
> >
> > >From: "Noah Nordrum" <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >Subject: Re: rookie questions - Try 2
> > >Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:54:48 -0400
> > >
> > >This is a similar problem, but not really. Having a 
> "tiled" background of a
> > >2
> > >column table is easy:
> > >
> > >     <tr>
> > >       <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 0">
> > >         <xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">red</xsl:attribute>
> > >       </xsl:if>
> > >         <td>search criteria</td><td>input field</td>
> > >     </tr>
> > >
> > >going like this:
> > ><search criteria>  <input field>  <search criteria>  <input field>
> > ><search criteria>  <input field>  <search criteria>  <input field>
> > ><search criteria>  <input field>  <search criteria>  <input field>
> > >is much harder.
> > >
> > >I posted a similar request for this pattern last week, but 
> no responses yet
> > >:(
> > >I know it is somewhere in the archives, but I can't seem 
> to find it, and
> > >unfortunately I had only bookmarked the list-archive 
> index, and not the
> > >actual
> > >item. oops ;)
> > >
> > >If if find out, I'll forward the answer on to you.
> > >
> > >Noah
> > >
> >
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