Subject: Re: [xsl] Identifying column position in XHTML table model? From: "andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:45:31 +0100 |
You would need to add to it to be able to track back from the result to the source, but that shouldn't be too hard.
cheers andrew
Has anyone developed code (preferably XSLT 1.0) that can identify the physical output column of a cell in the XHTML table model? I.e., given data like so
<table> <tr> <td rowspan="2">content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr> <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">content</td> <td>content</td> </tr> </table>
which produces a table looking something like
x x x x . x x x x . . x
be able to calculate that table/tr[2]/td[1] is in column 2 and table/tr[3]/td[2] is in column 4, etc.?
It's not a simple algorithm to figure out because it must take into account for a given cell all combinations of @colspan and @rowspan in preceding cells that interact to affect the position of the current cell.
I can see my way to an XSLT 2.0 solution that would work by creating pseudo-array variable created via a recursive function (basically an XML version of the "x . x" picture), but that's not an option in XSLT 1.0. Ideally I need something that will work with current Web browser XSLT parsers. (The underlying data I'm working with is actually TEI tables, but the row/column span semantics are identical to XHTML.)
DS
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