I have the following problem. I do have some elements (not knowing their
count) and want to insert them into table-columns where always after 4
inserted elements the next 4 elements should be stored in the next column.
I
have alreaday done this with always beginning a new _row_ every 4
elements.
[snip]
But how can that be done with columns?
This transformation:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<table>
<xsl:call-template name="makeNRowsTable">
<xsl:with-param name="pcolSize" select="4"/>
<xsl:with-param name="ptheNodes" select="/*/*"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="makeNRowsTable">
<xsl:param name="pcolSize" select="1"/>
<xsl:param name="ptheNodes" select="/.."/>
<xsl:for-each select="$ptheNodes[position() <= $pcolSize]">
<xsl:variable name="vthisMod" select="position() mod $pcolSize"/>
<tr>
<xsl:for-each
select="$ptheNodes[position() mod $pcolSize = $vthisMod]">
<td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
</xsl:for-each>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when applied on this source.xml:
<nums>
<num>01</num>
<num>02</num>
<num>03</num>
<num>04</num>
<num>05</num>
<num>06</num>
<num>07</num>
<num>08</num>
<num>09</num>
<num>10</num>
</nums>
produces the wanted result:
<html>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>01</td>
<td>05</td>
<td>09</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02</td>
<td>06</td>
<td>10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>03</td>
<td>07</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>04</td>
<td>08</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Note that the "makeNRowsTable" template accepts an arbitrary node-set, whose
elements may or may not be siblings. This is an improvement over the
"traditional" algorithm, which assumes that all nodes in the node-set are
siblings.
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
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