Thanks!!!
--- Jeni Tennison <jeni(_at_)jenitennison(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi Millie,
It's not even slightly clear to me where to start.
How do the
attributes like "numcols" and "numrows" figure in,
not to mention
how do you connect the variable "num" from
column_info to the num
from the rows?
I'd just ignore the numcols and numrows attributes.
You don't need
them to turn this XML into an table in HTML or
XSL-FO. Just think of
the mapping between the elements in your XML and the
HTML or XSL-FO
you want to create. For example for HTML:
table => table
column_info => th
row => tr
column => td
Then for each of those mappings create a template:
<xsl:template match="table">
<table>
<caption><xsl:value-of select="@name"
/></caption>
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="column_info" />
</tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="row" />
</table>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="column_info">
<th><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></th>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="row">
<tr><xsl:apply-templates /></tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="column">
<td><xsl:apply-templates /></td>
</xsl:template>
Something similar would apply for XSL-FO, but the
names of the
elements that you generate would be different.
Cheers,
Jeni
---
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