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Re: Cannot enter data into Dynamic Table cells

2004-07-01 08:44:14





I have looked through numerous mailing lists and forums but i am unable
to
find the solution i require, so hopefully there is someone who could
help.

I am creating reports in HTML and RTF format from a flat file. This has
been
easily done, but I am also required to create a title page that lists
unique
references. I am able to get the unique references, but when i try to
write
them in my table, the incorrect field values are entered.

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"Colin Mathieson" <colinmathieson(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com> wrote on 07/01/2004 
02:19:01
PM:


I am using an xml file to map the different elements required as follows:

<mappings root="RegistrationList" child="Registration" delimiter="">
   <mapping pos="0" length="4" name="title" type="Element" />
   <mapping pos="1" length="10" name="surname" type="Element" />
   <mapping pos="2" length="10" name="extsurname" type="Element" />
   <mapping pos="3" length="15" name="forename" type="Element" />
   <mapping pos="4" length="1" name="initial" type="Element" />
                <mapping pos="5" length="5" name="ref" type="Element" />
                <mapping pos="6" length="1" name="selind" type="Element"
/>
   <mapping pos="7" length="1" name="deadind" type="Element" />
   <mapping pos="8" length="1" name="tranind" type="Element" />
                <mapping pos="9" length="1" name="depind" type="Element"
/>
</mappings>


I am using the following code to get the unique references and trying to
write them to a dynamic table. Instead of the references being entered,
it
writes the fields after i.e. values of selind,deadind,tranind,depind.

It does however put the correct amount of rows, and the correct reference

value in the first cell of each row.

<xsl:key name="ref-key" match="ref" use="." />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="unique-ref"
select="/RegistrationList/Registration/ref[generate-id() =
generate-id(key('ref-key', .))]" />
<table align="center" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
   <xsl:for-each select="$unique-ref[position() mod 5 = 1]">
      <tr>
         <td>
            <xsl:value-of select="current()" />
         </td>
         <xsl:for-each select="current()[position()]/following::
*[position() &lt;
5]">
            <td>
               <xsl:value-of select="current()" />
            </td>
         </xsl:for-each>
      </tr>
   </xsl:for-each>
</table>
</xsl:template>


the problem seems to be the line :

<xsl:for-each select="current()[position()]/following::*[position() &lt;
5]">

I have also used

<xsl:for-each
select="current()[position()]/following::$unique-ref[position() &lt; 5]">

but it only produces a blank page.

Please someone help as this has been driving me crazy, and there is
probably
a simple solution.

Thanks in advance

Colin

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