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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re:Generating table rows... selecting a run of empty
 Your example is a fine way to break the table into rows, but I am still left with the core problem: How do I select a run of emptpy elements for processing into a table with rows? I.e. I have <photo title="9 jo kesa with Sanskrit A" file="Daimonji.023.jpg"> This robe was found in 1955 after ... end of description. </photo> <photo title="hand bell from Hondo" file="Daimonji.024.jpg"/> <photo title="hand bell from Hondo" file="Daimonji.025.jpg"/> <photo title="hand bell from Hondo" file="Daimonji.026.jpg"/> <photo title="hand bell from Kaisando" file="Daimonji.027.jpg"/> <photo title="hand bell from Sanmon" file="Daimonji.028.jpg"/> <photo title="hand bell from Hondo" file="Daimonji.029.jpg"/> <photo title="9 jo kesa with Ring TieA" file="Daimonji.032.jpg"> Very fine condition linen robe. The carved box ... end of description. </photo> And I want to apply table processing to that central run of 6 elements, making a table of one and a half rows of four each. The elements with paragraphs of text are handled in a different way. I can select the first empty <photo ../> element with <xsl:template match="photo[not(text())][preceding-sibling::photo[1][text()]]"> But how do I assign that and the following 5 elements to a variable, with which I can then call the "rowsof4" template? I think I want something like the following, but it fails with the "wrong number of arguments". <xsl:with-param name="nodes" select=". | following-sibling::photo[not(text())][position() <position(following-sibling::photo[text()][1])]"/> Thanks, David Riggs, Kyoto Wendell answered my original query with: -------------------------- >>I understand how to select the elements with not(text()) and to use an >>Xpath expression to make a new row every >>four items, but I do not see how to select a run of content-less >>elements that need to be treated that way.
<xsl:template name="rowsof4">
<xsl:param name="nodes" select="/self::*"/>
<!-- the default is a fancy way of saying 'no nodes'
(by asking for the root node that is an element) -->
<xsl:for-each select="$nodes">
<xsl:variable name="node-position" select="position()"/>
<xsl:if test="$node-position mod 4 = 1">
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates mode="cell"
select=". | $nodes[$node-position + 1]
| $nodes[$node-position + 2]
| $nodes[$node-position + 3]"/>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>then... <xsl:call-template name="rowsof4"> <xsl:with-param name="nodes" select="$the-elements-you-want-in-your-rows]"/> </xsl:call-template> ... leaving the rest (e.g. the "cell" mode) for you to fill in. -------------------- 
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