Re: need a hint on matching table cells

Maybe you could post the "CELL" template?

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Charles Knell
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---- "Brad Miller" <Brad.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wanted to try to figure this out on my own but I think I am at the
> point where I need a little hint to help me along.
> 
> I need to create an HTML table structure that has 3 columns. In my
> XML I have something like this:
> <T-BODY>
> <ROW>
> 	<CELL SPAN="grey">grey equals a colspan of 2 and td shaded
> in gray.</CELL>
> 	<CELL SPAN="normal">some text normal td tag</CELL>
> </ROW>
> <ROW>
> 	<CELL SPAN="normal">some text normal td tag</CELL>
> 	<CELL SPAN="normal">some text normal td tag</CELL>
> 	<CELL SPAN="normal">some text normal td tag</CELL>
> </ROW>
> <ROW>
> 	<CELL SPAN="lightgrey">lightgrey equals a colspan of 2 and
> td shaded in lightgray.</CELL>
> 	<CELL SPAN="normal">some text normal td tag</CELL>
> </ROW>
> </T-BODY>
> 
> I am currently testing for the SPAN attribute and then applying the
> appropriate template.(or so I thought)
> 
> <xsl:template match="T-BODY/ROW">
> 	<tr>
> 		<xsl:if test="CELL/@SPAN = 'grey'">
>    			<td colspan="2" class="grey"><xsl:apply-templates
>  select = "CELL" /></td>
>    		</xsl:if>
>    		<xsl:if test="CELL/@SPAN = 'lightgrey'">
>    			<td colspan="2" class="lightgrey"><xsl:apply-templates
>  select = "CELL" /></td>
>    		</xsl:if>
>    		<xsl:if test="CELL/@SPAN = 'normal'">
>    			<td><xsl:apply-templates  select = "CELL"
> /></td>
>    		</xsl:if>
> 	</tr>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> This is what I get as an end result:
> <tr>
> <td class="grey" colspan="2">grey equals a colspan of 2 and td shaded
> in gray.some text normal td tag</td>
> <td>grey equals a colspan of 2 and td shaded in gray.some text normal
> td tag</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>some text normal td tagsome text normal td tagsome text normal
> td tag</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td class="lightgrey" colspan="2">lightgrey equals a colspan of 2 and
> td shaded in lightgray.some text normal td tag</td>
> <td>lightgrey equals a colspan of 2 and td shaded in lightgray.some
> text normal td tag</td>
> </tr>
> 
> As you can see it is taking all the CELL information and dumping it
> into each td when the SPAN attribute is different and only creating
> one td for the sections where the SPAN attribute is the same.
> 
> I think I understand why it is doing this but I am not sure how to
> go about changing it to work correctly.
> 
> Thanks for any help you have to offer
> Brad
> 
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