RE: [xsl] 5 column grid sorted by Country

[cknell@xxxxxxxxxx]

> I can create a 5 column grid quite easily if the XML contains producers of
> just one country but handling more than one has me beaten, for now at least.

You are vague on exactly what trouble you are having. Why is it relevant that the list might contain vintners from more than one country? 

What is your output target format?

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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     W Charlton <XSLList@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:49:41 +0100
To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:  [xsl]  5 column grid sorted by Country

I?ve been wrestling with this all day and thought I would throw this out to
the xsl community.

I?m using XSL 1.0 although an XSL 2.0 solution would possibly be OK if MS C#
DotNet supports it?

We are using DotNetNuke if anyone is familiar with it and I?m not sure if it
supports XSL v 2.0 but we access to the source code and if needed it could
possibly be hacked if XSL 2.0 is the only way forward.

I have a list of wine producers from various different countries and need to
output them in a 5 column (although customers being what they are this could
be 4 column so this would need to be a parameter) grid grouped by country.

The XML looks like:

<DocumentElement>
            <QueryResults>
                        <ManufacturerID>1</ManufacturerID>
                        <ManufacturerName>Abelard
Champagne</ManufacturerName>
        <CountryCode>DE</CountryCode>
            </QueryResults>
            <QueryResults>
                        <ManufacturerID>2</ManufacturerID>
                        <ManufacturerName>Caymus
Vineyards</ManufacturerName>
                        <LogoURL>/Manufacturers/CAYM.jpg</LogoURL>
                        <CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
                        <Location>California</Location>
            </QueryResults>
            <QueryResults>
                        <ManufacturerID>3</ManufacturerID>
                        <ManufacturerName>DeLille Cellars</ManufacturerName>
                        <LogoURL>/Manufacturers/delil.jpg</LogoURL>
        <CountryCode>IT</CountryCode>
            </QueryResults>
            <QueryResults>
                        <ManufacturerID>4</ManufacturerID>
                        <ManufacturerName>Pillot Paul</ManufacturerName>
                        <LogoURL>/Manufacturers/DMPP.jpg</LogoURL>
                        <CountryCode>FR</CountryCode>
                        <Location>Burgundy </Location>
            </QueryResults>
            <QueryResults>
                        <ManufacturerID>5</ManufacturerID>
                        <ManufacturerName>D. R. Stephens</ManufacturerName>
                        <LogoURL>/Manufacturers/drs.jpg</LogoURL>
                        <CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
                        <Location>California</Location>
            </QueryResults>
? And more
</DocumentElement>

There are roughly 70 producers in total and about 6 countries. These are
both variable as the data is dynamic.

I can create a 5 column grid quite easily if the XML contains producers of
just one country but handling more than one has me beaten, for now at least.

My thoughts were to create a key for each country and then a template for
each key which used mod 5 to handle the grid. 
I can construct the sequel query that produces the list to ?order by?
CountryCode and then ManufacturerName if it helps and if needed I could
hard-code the call for each of the CountryCodes and they could be in
separate tables if that makes it easier.

Anyone?

William Charlton
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