RE: [xsl] Newbie question: Incrementing the position in the tree midstream

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

You might find that the technique in

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N4486.html#d4429e403

works for this problem.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Durston, Andrew (AGRE) 
> [mailto:andrew.durston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 April 2004 19:42
> To: Xsl-List (E-mail)
> Subject: [xsl] Newbie question: Incrementing the position in 
> the tree midstream
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just getting started with XSL and all and had a question 
> about whether you can change positions in the tree midstream.
> I have a set of XML outputs from a database which splits a 
> table into individual cells -
> 
> test-plan/object/cell N
> test-plan/object/cell N+1
> test-plan/object/cell N+2
> test-plan/object/cell N+3
> 
> I can search to find cell N. I'd like to be able to print 
> cell N, cell N+1, cell N+2 ... all at once and then when XSL goes back
> to searching (via a For) through the tree, it skips N+1, N+2 
> etc. (basically does a table row and then skips to the beginning of
> the next row). Without entering another XML attribute into 
> our DB to indicate beginning and end of rows... How do I increment
> the position, moving from object/cell N to object/cell N+1 midstream?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Andrew
> 
> Andrew C. Durston
> Smiths Aerospace
> Electronic Systems - Grand Rapids
> 616.241.8715
> andrew.durston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
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