This worked perfectly. Thanks Roger.
Can you point me to where I can find the position() function?
And maybe some other functions similar to it.
-James
From: "Roger Glover" <glover_roger(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
Date: 2003/01/29 Wed PM 12:53:31 EST
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: RE: [xsl] XSL to HTML table problem
James [mailto:arcjah(_at_)fuse(_dot_)net] wrote:
I have an xml document that looks like the following:
<Dictionary>
<WordDefinition>
<Word>Some Word</Word>
<Definition>First Definition</Definition>
<Definition>Second Definition</Definition>
<Definition>Third Definition</Definition>
</WordDefinition>
<WordDefinition>
<Word>Second Word</Word>
<Definition>First Definition</Definition>
<Definition>Second Definition</Definition>
</WordDefinition>
</Dictionary>
I have an xslt document that looks like the following:
o /
----X---------- <snip>
O \
<xsl:for-each select="Dictionary/WordDefinition">
<xsl:sort select="Word"/>
<tr bgcolor="#99CCFF"><td><xsl:value-of
select="Word"/></td><td><br/></td></tr>
<xsl:for-each select="Definition">
<tr bgcolor="#99CCAA"><td><br/></td><td><xsl:value-of
select="."/></td></tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
o /
----X---------- <snip>
O \
(My problem is, I want the word and first definition on the same row.)
The above xsl transforms the xml document into a html document
that has the word on one row, in the first column and the
defintions in the second, third and forth row in the second column.
Again I want to figure out how to make the word and first
definition sit on the same row.
I've heard about indexing the elements but I've never seen any
examples of this.
Try the following in place of the isolated portion above:
<xsl:for-each select="Dictionary/WordDefinition">
<xsl:sort select="Word"/>
<tr bgcolor="#99CCFF">
<td><xsl:value-of select="Word"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Definition[1]"/></td> <!-- first def -->
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="Definition[position() > 1]"> <!-- later defs -->
<tr bgcolor="#99CCAA">
<td><br/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
-- Roger Glover
glover_roger(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com
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