Re: [xsl] Table formatting challenge

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv at dyomedea dot com>]

David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> Oliver,
> 
>  My code was shorter.

Extreme Programming has a rule that says that you should always write
the minimal code needed to solve a given problem and I think that you've
gone quite far in this direction, but you have exposed only an extract
of your transformation.

The full code would be at least:

============
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="/">
<table border="1">
<tr>
  <td rowspan="2">A</td>
  <td>B</td>
  <td rowspan="2">C</td>
  <td>D</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="auto-generated"></td>
  <td>E</td>
</tr>
</table>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
============

And this can be simplified to:

============
<table xsl:version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; border="1">
<tr>
  <td rowspan="2">A</td>
  <td>B</td>
  <td rowspan="2">C</td>
  <td>D</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="auto-generated"></td>
  <td>E</td>
</tr>
</table>
============

Using a "Literal Result Element as Stylesheet" [1].
 
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#result-element-stylesheet

Eric
> 
> David
> 
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