David Carlisle wrote:
<xsl:for-each select="//*[position() <= 8]">
<fo:table-column column-width="2cm"/>
</xsl:for-each>
thanks for answering David, however I still have two problems:
1- the value 8 is in a variable called maxNumbers and the following does not
seem to work:
<xsl:for-each select="//*[position() <=$maxNumbers]">
2- the number of fo:table-column genereated by the following code is more than
8, it is 94.
<xsl:template match="performance-table">
<xsl:variable name="maxNumbers">
<xsl:for-each
select="performance-tables/performance-table/performance-table-tr">
<xsl:if
test="count(performance-tables/performance-table/performance-table-tr[count(performance-table-td)
count(current()/performance-table-td)]) = 0">
<xsl:value-of select="count(performance-table-td)"/>:
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($maxNumbers,':')"/>
<fo:table>
<xsl:for-each select="//*[position() <= 8]">
<fo:table-column column-width="2cm"/>
</xsl:for-each>
<fo:table-body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="performance-table-tr"/>
</fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
</xsl:template>
here is the source xml:
<performance-tables>
<performance-table-name>123546</performance-table-name>
<performance-table-remark>bla bla bla</performance-table-remark>
<performance-table>
<performance-table-tr/>
<performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>rty.</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>rty</performance-table-td>
</performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>yu</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>ui</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>uio</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>io</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>ki</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>mpl</performance-table-td>
</performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>1</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>2</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>3</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>4</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>5</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td> </performance-table-td>
</performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-td>6| - 12 -
6</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>Clear</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>23</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>6</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>2</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>83</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>17</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>17</performance-table-td>
</performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-td>6| - 12Ar -
|6</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>Dark
blue</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>23</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>6</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>2</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>83</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>16</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>16</performance-table-td>
</performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-tr>
<performance-table-td>6| - 12 -
6</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>Brilliant
bronze</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>25</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>18</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>3</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>63</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>20</performance-table-td>
<performance-table-td>20</performance-table-td>
</performance-table-tr>
</performance-table>
</performance-tables>
any idea on how to solve this?
regards,
Camille
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