At 12:19 PM 8/16/2004, you wrote:
But that will have troubles is there is more than 50 order...
Not if you construct the recursive template correctly.
Passing it a negative number as a parameter (let's say you have 55 orders:
the parameter passed will be (50 - 55) = -5), you can easily "fall through"
and choose not to emit output or recurse:
<xsl:template name="write-blanks">
<xsl:param name="counter" select="0"/>
<xsl:if test="$counter > 0">
... write your blank line here ...
<xsl:call-template name="write-blanks">
<xsl:with-param name="counter" select="$counter - 1"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Cheers,
Wendell
Citando Wendell Piez <wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>:
> At 09:03 AM 8/16/2004, Keyur wrote:
> >my xml code is as follows:
> ><orders>
> ><order id="1">ABC</order>
> ><order id="2">XYZ</order>
> ><order id="3">QWE</order>
> ></orders>
> >
> >The orders tag will grow as and when new orders are added. Now in my
> >stylesheet (PRINTER FRIENDLY) I need to display the orders as below.
> >
> >ORDERS:
> >1. ABC
> >2. XYZ
> >3. QWE
> >4. ________
> >5. ________
> >6. ________
> >.
> >.
> >.
> >.
> >50. _______
> >
> >In my printer friendly stylesheet I need to display minimum 50 lines. If
> >there are less then 50 orders then all the remaining lines will be blank
> >with an underline. The transformed page (this xml and xsl will be
> >transformed using ASP.NET) will be printed and the blank lines will be
> >filled manually with a pen and Signed.
> >
> >So I think conditional looping will be required.
>
> Cleaner than the method named after me would be to process the order nodes
> you have, and then pass the difference between 50 and their count to a
> recursive template that would emit the blank lines until zero (or less than
> zero) was reached:
>
> <xsl:template match="orders">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="order"/>
> <xsl:call-template name="write-blanks">
> <xsl:with-param name="counter" select="50 - count(order)"/>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:template>
>
> (Since you've already seen the recursive template I leave it to you to
> adjust it -- and get the numbering of the blank lines right. ;-)
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