This is the mail archive of the
xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
mailing list .
XSL equivalent to SQL "unique"
- To: "'xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: [xsl] XSL equivalent to SQL "unique"
- From: "Nestel, Frank" <frank dot nestel at coi dot de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:09:27 +0200
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Hi,
I've spent some time to figure out an easy way to solve the following
problem and failed, maybe some Guru can give me a clue?
Having XML input like
<set name="1">
<a>v1</a>
<c>v2</c>
<d>v3</d>
</set>
<set name="2">
<a>v4</a>
<b>v5</b>
<e>v6</e>
</set>
<set name="3">
<b>v7</b>
<f>v8</f>
</set>
I need to render a quadratic schema like
a b c d e f
1 v1 v2 v3
2 v4 v5 v6
3 v7 v8
in HTML, i.e., I need output like
<table>
<tr><td></td><td>a</td><td>b</td><td>c</td><td>d</td><td>e</td><td>f</td></t
r>
<tr><td>1</td><td>v1</td><td></td><td>v2</td><td>v3</td><td></td><td></td></
tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>v4</td><td>v5</td><td></td><td></td><td>v6</td><td></td></
tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td></td><td>v7</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>v8</td></tr
>
</table>
Of course all dimensions are variable dependand on underlying
data. I thought, the problem boils down to obtaining the a list like
<n>a</n><n>b</n><n>c</n><n>d</n><n>e</n><n>f</n>
in a variable from the initial input. But I failed to obtain that, though
I'm fairly sure it has to "be there" :-(
Any help?
Thank you very much,
Frank
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list