RE: [xsl] problem with spreadsheet-like xml structure

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you know that the data is in groups of three, you can use

<xsl:template match="row">
  <xsl:for-each select="cell[position() mod 3 = 1]">
    <location>
      <name><xsl:value-of select="."/></name>
      <note><xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::cell[1]"/></note>
      <date><xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::cell[2]"/></date>
    </location>
  </
</

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
     

> -----Original Message-----
> From: max@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:max@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 June 2005 21:40
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] problem with spreadsheet-like xml structure
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to convert data in an Excel's xml-format to a 
> custom xml-format.
> The logical structure of the Excel data is
> 
> <table>
> <row>
> 
> <cell> location1 <cell>
> <cell> note <cell>
> <cell> date1 <cell>
> 
> <cell> location2 <cell>
> <cell> note2 <cell>
> <cell> date2 <cell>
> 
> <cell> location3 <cell>
> <cell> note3 <cell>
> <cell> date3 <cell>
> 
> </row>
> <row>
> ...
> </row>
> </table>
> 
> What I need is:
> 
> <row>
> 
> <location date="date1">
> <name>location1</name>
> <note>note1</note>
> </location>
> 
> <location date="date2">
> <name>location2</name>
> <note>note2</note>
> </location>
> 
> <location date="date3">
> <name>location3</name>
> <note>note3</note>
> </location>
> 
> <row>
> 
> I can get the location cells ( using position() ) and place 
> the cell data
> into my location element but
> then I don't know how to place the following cells inside 
> this location
> element.
> 
> <xsl:if test="position() =1 ">
> 	<xsl:element name="location">
> 		<xsl:element name="name">
> 				<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> 			</xsl:element>
> 
> 		<!-- PLACE HERE NEXT TWO CELLS -->
> 
> 		</xsl:element>
> </xsl:if>