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RE: iterating over unstructured data
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:30:28 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] iterating over unstructured data
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
>
> This may be a faq, but my searches have so far been unproductive.
>
> For the data:
>
> <root>
> <foo>1</foo>
> <bar>2</bar>
> <foo>3</foo>
> <bar>4</bar>
> <foo>5</foo>
> <bar>6</bar>
> <foo>7</foo>
> <bar>8</bar>
> <foo>9</foo>
> <bar>10</bar>
> </root>
>
> I want to output the following format (foo followed by bar on
> each line):
>
> 1 2
> 3 4
> 5 6
> 7 8
> 9 10
>
> What is the best way of going about this?
>
<xsl:template match="foo">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::bar[1]"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="bar"/>
<xsl:template match="root">
<table>
<xsl:apply-templates select="foo"/>
</table>
</xsl:template>
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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