Subject: Re: generalizing an XSL solution From: "Judi Thomson" <thomson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 20:04:16 -0700 |
Perfect! Thank you! Judi ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Brown <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:22 PM Subject: RE: generalizing an XSL solution > > I want to create an XSL sheet that selects specific > > information from an HTML table and writes it to an XML file. > > For example I might have an HTML document with 4 tables on > > it, and I want the information from rows 3,4, and 5 of > > table 2. (assume that the HTML is well formed) > > > > I can figure out how to do this for specific instances > > (using siblings/children and XPath). What I want to do is > > create a sheet that has the parameters (3,4,5 and 2 in this > > example) specified separately > > You almost described it exactly. You just need to get the syntax right. > Let's say your XHTML is in sometables.xhtml, and you have info about what > table and row numbers you want in a file called lookup.xml: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <stuff_we_want> > <tablerow num="3" fromtable="2"/> > <tablerow num="4" fromtable="2"/> > <tablerow num="5" fromtable="2"/> > </stuff_we_want> > > then in a template in your stylesheet, you could have: > > <!-- process each tablerow from lookup.xml --> > <xsl:for-each select="document('lookup.xml')/stuff_we_want/tablerow"/> > <!-- get table and row --> > <xsl:variable name="tablenum" select="number(@fromtable)"/> > <xsl:variable name="rownum" select="number(@num)"/> > <!-- copy contents of 2nd cell from that row --> > <xsl:copy-of > select="document('sometables.xhtml')//table[$tablenum]/tr[$rownum]/td[2]"/> > </xsl:for-each> > > As you can see, you just use the number() function to make the $tablenum and > $rownum variables be numbers rather than node-sets or strings, and then use > those numbers in predicates in an XPath expression to select the nth node in > the set identified to the left of the predicate. > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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