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Re: Table generation with XSL?
Perfect, thanks for that.
Chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Hedley" <w.hedley@auckland.ac.nz>
To: <xsl-list@mulberrytech.com>; "Chris Burn" <chrislists@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: Table generation with XSL?
> The following stylesheet should do what you want (and
> does with Saxon 5.3.2). Obviously there are some
> optimisations possible - all of "match"ed templates
> could be moved into the root template, for instance -
> but I separated it out for clarity. Sorry, no
> documentation, but I think it's pretty clear what's
> going on - the key thing to note is that you have
> to use recursion to implement counting functionality
> in XSLT.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
>
> <xsl:template match="Table">
> <xsl:variable name="num_columns">
> <xsl:call-template name="count_columns" />
> </xsl:variable>
>
> <table>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="HeadRow">
> <xsl:with-param name="num_columns" select="$num_columns" />
> </xsl:apply-templates>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="Row">
> <xsl:with-param name="num_columns" select="$num_columns" />
> </xsl:apply-templates>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="Caption">
> <xsl:with-param name="num_columns" select="$num_columns" />
> </xsl:apply-templates>
> </table>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template name="count_columns">
> <xsl:param name="num_columns" select="'0'" />
> <xsl:param name="num_rows" select="count(HeadRow) + count(Row)" />
> <xsl:param name="current_row" select="1" />
>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="$current_row < $num_rows">
> <xsl:variable name="row" select="(HeadRow | Row)[$current_row]" />
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="count($row/Cell) > $num_columns">
> <xsl:call-template name="count_columns">
> <xsl:with-param name="num_columns" select="count($row/Cell)"
/>
> <xsl:with-param name="num_rows" select="$num_rows" />
> <xsl:with-param name="current_row" select="$current_row + 1"
/>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <xsl:call-template name="count_columns">
> <xsl:with-param name="num_columns" select="$num_columns" />
> <xsl:with-param name="num_rows" select="$num_rows" />
> <xsl:with-param name="current_row" select="$current_row + 1"
/>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <xsl:value-of select="$num_columns" />
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="HeadRow">
> <xsl:param name="num_columns" />
>
> <thead>
> <tr>
> <xsl:for-each select="Cell">
> <td><xsl:copy-of select="*|text()" /></td>
> </xsl:for-each>
> <xsl:call-template name="insert_blank_cells">
> <xsl:with-param name="num_cells" select="$num_columns -
count(Cell)" />
> </xsl:call-template>
> </tr>
> </thead>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="Row">
> <xsl:param name="num_columns" />
>
> <tr>
> <xsl:for-each select="Cell">
> <td><xsl:copy-of select="*|text()" /></td>
> </xsl:for-each>
> <xsl:call-template name="insert_blank_cells">
> <xsl:with-param name="num_cells" select="$num_columns - count(Cell)"
/>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </tr>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="Caption">
> <xsl:param name="num_columns" />
>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="{$num_columns}"><xsl:copy-of select="*|text()" /></td>
> </tr>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template name="insert_blank_cells">
> <xsl:param name="num_cells" />
>
> <xsl:if test="$num_cells > 0">
> <td><xsl:value-of select="' '" /></td>
> <xsl:call-template name="insert_blank_cells">
> <xsl:with-param name="num_cells" select="$num_cells - 1" />
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> --
> Warren Hedley
> Department of Engineering Science
> Auckland University
> New Zealand
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