Re: Getting html table cell values based on the table

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Subject: Re: Getting html table cell values based on the table heading
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:11:54 +0100

On 01/07/2010 13:01, Karl Funk wrote:

Hi,

Firstly I would like to do this as an xpath expression, if this is an
inappropriate question for this forum then I apologise, but would like to
see an XSL equivalent also.

xpath is on topic for the list, although it's best to say whether you want xpath 1 or 2 as it'll make a lot of difference here (so no code suggestions in this reply).

Basically you need to find the column number from the heading, and then extract all the entries in that column. That's easier to write (and probably a lot more efficient) if you can store the column number in a variable before looking up the, that requires something that can bind values to variables, so xslt or xpath2. Also of course if you are doing this in xslt you could define a key and that may speed up access greatly. if you are doing it in pure xpath you rely more on your xpath engine to optimize, especially if using xslt 1, in which case you might hope it factors out the expression to calculate the column number.

(you could probably have made the example a bit smaller, especially as it came out double spaced)

David

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