Re: Arbitrarily breaking up a table

[Oliver Becker <obecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have the following structure
> <TABLE>
>   <HEADERROW>
> 	<HEADER>a</HEADER> <HEADER>b</HEADER> <HEADER>c</HEADER>
>   </HEADERROW>
>   <DATAROWS>	
>      <DATAROW>
> 	<DATA>1</DATA> <DATA>1</DATA> <DATA>1</DATA>
>      </DATAROW>
>      <DATAROW>
> 	<DATA>2</DATA> <DATA>2</DATA> <DATA>2</DATA>
>      </DATAROW>
... [snip]
>   </DATAROWS>
> </TABLE>
> 
> Normally a bunch of applied templates could easily create one table with 9
> rows. 
> 
> What I need is to generate three tables from the same XML each with its own
> table header.
> 
> First table would (arbitrarily) have 5 consective rows (rows 1-5).
> Second table would have 2 consecutive rows (6-7).
> Third table would have 2 consective rows (8-9).

The trick is to select the rows you want to process with an XPath
expression using the context position of each row.
E.g. the first table should contain all the rows that have a position
greater or equal 1 and lower or equal 5:
      <xsl:apply-templates select="DATAROW[position() &gt;= 1 and
                                           position() &lt;= 5]" />

Now you have to take care to create the table headers at the appropriate
position in your stylesheet: first skip them, but afterwards process them
explicitly. 

I hope the following complete stylesheet shows what I shortly tried to
explain:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:template match="TABLE">
   <!-- skip HEADERROW -->
   <xsl:apply-templates select="DATAROWS" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="DATAROWS">
   Table 1:
   <table>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::HEADERROW" />
      <xsl:apply-templates select="DATAROW[position() &gt;= 1 and
                                           position() &lt;= 5]" />
   </table>
   Table 2:
   <table>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::HEADERROW" />
      <xsl:apply-templates select="DATAROW[position() &gt;= 6 and
                                           position() &lt;= 7]" />
   </table>
   Table 3:
   <table>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::HEADERROW" />
      <xsl:apply-templates select="DATAROW[position() &gt;= 8 and
                                           position() &lt;= 9]" />
   </table>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="HEADERROW | DATAROW">
   <tr><xsl:apply-templates /></tr>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="HEADER">
   <th><xsl:value-of select="."/></th>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="DATA">
   <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


Best regards,
Oliver


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