Re: [xsl] Need help combing two elements

["Fatbob" <fatbob73@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Syd,

Well basically, this XSL is used to build a report. Here is a sample of the 
report that this XSL builds as it is now...

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7903/samplereport.jpg

What I'm trying to do is combine the first two columns into one column. So 
instead of having a column for date (the collect column), and a column for 
time (right next to Collect), I want that to be displayed in one column, 
similar to Resulted. Ultimately, I'd like to also convert the date to a 
different format (yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm), but one step at a time.

Well I didn't include LabHeaderCell, as that is not the part of the XSL that 
is giving my a head ache. LabHeaderCell is used to display the header (where 
you see Name:, MRN: Age: and Sex:). As for the variable $reportType, it's 
simply used to determine that this is a Laboratory report.

The part of the XSL that fills (not sure if that is the correct terminology) 
the table is...

 <fo:table-body>
     <xsl:for-each select="Row">
      <xsl:if test="@Type='Data'">
       <fo:table-row keep-together.within-column="always">
     <!--both a="$tempDate" b="$tempTime"/-->

        <xsl:for-each select="Cell[position() = 1 or position() = 2 or 
position() = 3 or position() = 6 or position() = 7 or position() = 8 or 
position() = 9 or position() = 10]">
         <xsl:call-template name="LabDataCell"/>
        </xsl:for-each>
       </fo:table-row>
      </xsl:if>
     </xsl:for-each>
    </fo:table-body>

and...

<xsl:template name="LabDataCell">
 <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="@Status='Panic'">
   <fo:table-cell color="red" background-color="white" border="1pt solid 
black" wrap-option="wrap" overflow="hidden">
    <fo:block font-size="8pt" padding="1mm" margin-left=".25mm" 
overflow="hidden" language="ru" hyphenate="true">
       <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      </fo:block>
     </fo:table-cell>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
   <fo:table-cell color="black" background-color="white" border="1pt solid 
black" wrap-option="wrap" overflow="hidden">
    <fo:block font-size="8pt" padding="1mm" margin-left=".25mm" 
overflow="hidden" language="ru" hyphenate="true">
       <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      </fo:block>
     </fo:table-cell>
    </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

So I figure Hermann's suggestion should go somewhere in the above snippet of 
XSL?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Syd Bauman" <Syd_Bauman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Need help combing two elements


> > and my XSL is the following (well a snippet of it, ...
>
> Actually, it would probably be easier to provide advice if you sent
> the entire XSLT (or a pointer to it), as it is quite difficult to
> test what you sent, as we don't have access to $reportType,
> LabHeaderCell, etc.
>
> I've got your input:
>
> <Row Type="Data">
>  <Cell>Mar 23, 2006</Cell>
>  <Cell>08:44</Cell>
> </Row>
>
> But what do you want the output to look like?
>
>
> While we're here, though, some thoughts follow.
>
> >       <xsl:for-each select="Row">
> >        <xsl:if test="@Type='Header'">
> >          <xsl:for-each select="Cell">
> >            <fo:table-column/>
> >          </xsl:for-each>
> >        </xsl:if>
> >      </xsl:for-each>
>
> Couldn't this be expressed a bit more simply as
>
>      <xsl:for-each select="Row[@Type='Header']/Cell">
>        <fo:table-column/>
>      </xsl:for-each>
>
> ?
>
> >     <xsl:choose>
> >      <xsl:when test="@Status='Panic'">
> >        <fo:table-cell color="red" background-color="white" border="1pt 
> > solid
> >          black" wrap-option="wrap" overflow="hidden">
> >          <fo:block font-size="8pt" padding="1mm" margin-left=".25mm"
> >            overflow="hidden" language="ru" hyphenate="true">
> >            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> >          </fo:block>
> >        </fo:table-cell>
> >      </xsl:when>
> >      <xsl:otherwise>
> >        <fo:table-cell color="black" background-color="white" border="1pt 
> > solid
> >          black" wrap-option="wrap" overflow="hidden">
> >          <fo:block font-size="8pt" padding="1mm" margin-left=".25mm"
> >            overflow="hidden" language="ru" hyphenate="true">
> >            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> >          </fo:block>
> >        </fo:table-cell>
> >      </xsl:otherwise>
> >    </xsl:choose>
>
> Since most of the content of the <when> and the <otherwise> are the
> same, I'd be inclined to factor out the similarities:
>
>  <xsl:template name="LabDataCell">
>    <xsl:variable name="color">
>      <xsl:choose>
>        <xsl:when test="@Status='Panic'">red</xsl:when>
>        <xsl:otherwise>black</xsl:otherwise>
>      </xsl:choose>
>    </xsl:variable>
>    <fo:table-cell color="{$color}" background-color="white"
>      border="1pt solid black" wrap-option="wrap" overflow="hidden">
>      <fo:block font-size="8pt" padding="1mm" margin-left=".25mm"
>        overflow="hidden" language="ru" hyphenate="true">
>        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>      </fo:block>
>    </fo:table-cell>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>
> I'm sure others on the list will point out if & where I'm wrong.