[xsl] Outputing tables on the fly (Was incrementing mid-stream part 4) - [Long: XML/XSL samples included]

["Durston, Andrew (AGRE)" <andrew.durston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas,

Many thanks for your (and everyone's) help to date. Am including truncated sections of the XML (it is from a requirements database tool, DOORS, which outputs every object, which has many attributes, as an XML object (doorsobject). even individual table cells have their own object) and one sample XSL processing loop. The usual caveats about this probably being lousy code (haven't coded in years and new to XSL to boot). We are taking the XML file and generating HTML documents from it.

I have included 5 objects, the first not a table and the other 4 make a small table... I need to go throught the loop processing paragraphs and tables as they occur. Wasn't sure whether one can build a table cell by cell or better to output all at once (my first thought) hence needing to gather all objects in that particular table. Anyhoo, I am rambling, here's the XML then the XSL --

<test-plan>
<doorsobject>
	<objectlevel>5</objectlevel>
	<objectnumber>1.2.2.2.0-2</objectnumber>
	<objecttext>Requirements text info.</objecttext>
	<tabletype>TableNone</tabletype>
</doorsobject>
<doorsobject>
	<objectlevel>8</objectlevel>
	<objectnumber>1.2.2.2.0-2.0-1.0-1.0-1</objectnumber>
	<objecttext>Cell 1-1</objecttext>
	<tabletype>TableCell</tabletype>
	<tablecell>
		<tablecellrow>1</tablecellrow>
		<tablecellcol>1</tablecellcol>
		<tablenumrows>2</tablenumrows>
		<tablenumcols>2</tablenumcols>
	</tablecell>
</doorsobject>
<doorsobject>
	<objectlevel>8</objectlevel>
	<objectnumber>1.2.2.2.0-2.0-1.0-1.0-2</objectnumber>
	<objecttext>Cell 1-2</objecttext>
	<tabletype>TableCell</tabletype>
	<tablecell>
		<tablecellrow>1</tablecellrow>
		<tablecellcol>2</tablecellcol>
		<tablenumrows>2</tablenumrows>
		<tablenumcols>2</tablenumcols>
	</tablecell>
</doorsobject>
<doorsobject>
	<objectlevel>8</objectlevel>
	<objectnumber>1.2.2.2.0-2.0-1.0-2.0-1</objectnumber>
	<objecttext>Cell 2-1</objecttext>
	<tabletype>TableCell</tabletype>
	<tablecell>
		<tablecellrow>2</tablecellrow>
		<tablecellcol>1</tablecellcol>
		<tablenumrows>2</tablenumrows>
		<tablenumcols>2</tablenumcols>
	</tablecell>
</doorsobject>
<doorsobject>
	<objectlevel>8</objectlevel>
	<objectnumber>1.2.2.2.0-2.0-1.0-2.0-2</objectnumber>
	<objecttext>Input Condition</objecttext>
	<tabletype>TableCell</tabletype>
	<tablecell>
		<tablecellrow>2</tablecellrow>
		<tablecellcol>2</tablecellcol>
		<tablenumrows>2</tablenumrows>
		<tablenumcols>2</tablenumcols>
	</tablecell>
</doorsobject>
</test-plan>

<xsl:for-each select="test-plan/doorsobject">
<xsl:if test='contains(objectnumber,"1.2.2.")'>
	<!-- If object level 4, then test header -->
	<xsl:if test='contains(objectlevel,"4")'>
		<h4>[Test case]
		<xsl:value-of select="concat(objectnumber,' ')"/>
		<xsl:value-of select="objectheading"/>
		</h4>
	</xsl:if>
	<!-- If object level 5 or greater, then test paragraph or table itself -->
	<xsl:if test='objectlevel &gt; 4'>
		<!-- if not a table entry, process like a paragraph -->
		<xsl:if test="contains(tabletype,'TableNone')">
			<p>
			[Am in loop for Test cases]
			<xsl:value-of select="objecttext"/>
			</p>
		</xsl:if>
		<!-- If a table entry, check to see if first table entry, then process entire table, if not, ignore them -->
		<xsl:if test="contains(tabletype,'TableCell')">
			<xsl:if test="tablecell/tablecellrow &lt; 2">
				<xsl:if test="tablecell/tablecellcol &lt; 2">
					<p>Found a table beginning</p>
					<table border="1">
					<!-- the first row is for .0-1.0-1. -->
					<!-- Here is where I want to output the entire table, printing objecttext, in rows/cols -->
					<!-- tablenumcols and tablenumrows being maxs, tablecellrow and tablecellcol being positions -->
					<xsl:for-each select=""> <!-- a row -->
						<tr>
						<xsl:for-each select=""> <!-- a column -->
							<td>
							<xsl:copy-of select="objecttext"/>
							</td>
						</xsl:for-each>
						</tr>
					</xsl:for-each>
					</tr>
					</table>
					<p>end of table for <xsl:value-of select="objecttext"/>
					</p>
				</xsl:if>
			</xsl:if>
		</xsl:if>
	</xsl:if>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

Regards,
Andrew

Andrew C. Durston
Smiths Aerospace
Electronic Systems - Grand Rapids
616.241.8715
andrew.durston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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