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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Creating nested structures
 At 02:31 PM 1/23/2004, you wrote: your question: "Or is this actually the case, and do you really want your result to have tables inside td (cell) elements? which is common enough in HTML" Sorry, I'm still having to make inferences. You describe the HTML above as input. If this is input to a process which is creating your TABLE/DROW/OBJECT structure, and it's the TABLE/DROW/OBJECT structure that you need to map out again to HTML tables, then what's wrong with the simple XSLT that Jorge suggested and that I included earlier today? (Have you tried it?) This will map TABLE to table, DPROW to tr and OBJECT to td. TABLE elements that appear inside OBJECT elements in the source will come out as table elements inside td elements in the result. No sweat: this is what XSLT does best; in fact you have to work extra to get it to do differently. <xsl:template match="TABLE">
<table>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</table>
</xsl:template><xsl:template match="DPROW"><!-- sorry, earlier I called it "DROW" -->
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</tr>
</xsl:template><xsl:template match="OBJECT">
<td>
<!-- first, whatever you want to do to show empty objects -->
...
<!-- then, continue tree traversal for the data content
and the nested tables by applying templates -->
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</td>
</xsl:template>(Note again that it does have to be enhanced to handle your attributes; but that's separate from the structural mapping problem.) If you have tried this and it doesn't do what you want, then we still have a problem, since what you say you want is what this code will do (yes, it will create tables inside tds, wherever you have TABLEs inside OBJECTs), so we need to go back to square one: either we haven't understood yet what you want, or the problem is larger than what you have described -- there could be something happening in code you haven't shown us. Cheers, Wendell
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