Thanks Mike,
I tried this latest XSL and I added another section in my XML (A7) like
this:
[...]
<Column>
<Caption>Spare</Caption>
<Colnr>A7</Colnr>
</Column>
</Columns>
<People>
<Person>
<Data>
<A1 color="000000">Note</A1>
<A2 color="000000"/>
<A3 color="000000">Note</A3>
<A4 color="000000"/>
<A5 color="000000">Note</A5>
<A6 fond="C0C0C0" color="D7AC00">2-MICALI,PAT-4053 </A6>
<A7 fond="C0C0C0" color="D7AC00">Exemple </A7>
[...]
Well, the new column header (Spare) is added ok., but the cells are black
with nothing in them. Instead the A7 element's data "Example" appears in a
separate row BEFORE the table.
I think I am missing something...
Thanks again,
Gabi.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Brown" <mike(_at_)skew(_dot_)org>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] too many columns
Gabi Bucataru wrote:
1.
See, the thing is that i will never know how many of those A1, A2
elements
(and so on) I will have. Once it might be only 2, 4, who knows. So is
there
a way that I can make the template dynamic? I mean this one (now I have
6
A's there):
<xsl:template match="A1|A2|A3|A4|A5|A6">
But you handle each of these elements the same way, so this template does
not
really need to change. What needs to change is how you arrive at this
template: the selection of nodes for processing (xsl:apply-templates or
xsl:for-each).
Also, in the stylesheet I posted for you, I didn't mean to use
mode="thead"..
that was leftover from an experiment.
2.
The second question is that I would like to start look into XSLT 1.0...
Can
you please point me to a resource to learn that? I would like to make
this
move.
1. The book "Beginning XSLT" by Jeni Tennison
2. The book "XSLT Reference" by Michael Kay
3. These free excerpts from other books:
. http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/chapters/ch17.html
. http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/training/#ptux-dl
. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp/chapter/index.html
4. http://www.vbxml.com/xsl/tutorials/intro/default.asp (decent tutorial)
5. http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Output/index.html (learn by
example)
You are lucky I didn't delete the XSLT 1.0 version of your stylesheet that
I
had dumbed down to make work with the WD-xsl namespace.
I cannot imagine making this new one work with the WD-xsl namespace,
though,
because it makes use of XSLT 1.0 instructions like xsl:variable and
functions
like current(), local-name(), and string(). No one who uses XSLT would
want to
have to live without them!
- Mike
____________________________________________________________________________
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
p.page {page-break-after: always}
body {background-color:#cccccc; margin:0
font:MessageBox;
font:Message-Box;}
.TableBody {background: white;
font-family: arial;
font-size: 9px}
.TableHeading {border-top-width:1;
border-left-width:1;
border-bottom-width:1;
border-right-width:1;
border-right-color:black;
border-bottom-color:black;
border-style:outset;
font-family:verdana;
font-size:10px;
background-color:#cccccc}
</style>
<!-- rest of head here -->
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="XMLData/Page" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Page">
<p class="page">
<table style="background: black" cellspacing="1" width="600">
<thead>
<xsl:apply-templates select="Columns/Column" />
</thead>
<tbody class="TableBody">
<xsl:apply-templates select="People/Person" />
</tbody>
</table>
</p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Column">
<th nowrap="yes" class="TableHeading">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string(Caption)">
<xsl:value-of select="Caption" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise> </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</th>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Person">
<tr>
<xsl:variable name="thisPerson" select="." />
<xsl:for-each select="../../Columns/Column">
<xsl:variable name="thisColumnData"
select="$thisPerson/Data/*[local-name()=current()/XMLNodeName]" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$thisColumnData">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$thisColumnData" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<td valign="top"
style="color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF"> </td>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="A1|A2|A3|A4|A5|A6">
<xsl:variable name="color">
<xsl:if test="@color">
<xsl:value-of select="@color"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="bgcolor">
<xsl:if test="@fond">
<xsl:value-of select="@fond"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:variable>
<td valign="top">
<xsl:attribute name="style">
<xsl:text>color:#</xsl:text>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$color != ''">
<xsl:value-of select="$color"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>000000</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:text>;background-color:#</xsl:text>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$bgcolor != ''">
<xsl:value-of select="$bgcolor"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>FFFFFF</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:text>;</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string(.)">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise> </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</td>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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