Re: [xsl] Getting html table cell values based on the table heading

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/07/2010 13:01, Karl Funk wrote:
> Hi,
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> Firstly I would like to do this as an xpath expression, if this is an
> inappropriate question for this forum then I apologise, but would like to
> see an XSL equivalent also.

xpath is on topic for the list, although it's best to say whether you 
want xpath 1 or 2 as it'll make a lot of difference here (so no code 
suggestions in this reply).

Basically you need to find the column number from the heading, and then 
extract all the entries in that column. That's easier to write (and 
probably a lot more efficient) if you can store the column number in a 
variable before looking up the, that requires something that can bind 
values to variables, so xslt or xpath2. Also of course if you are doing 
this in xslt you could define a key and that may speed up access 
greatly. if you are doing it in pure xpath you rely more on your xpath 
engine to optimize, especially if using xslt 1, in which case you might 
hope it factors out the expression to calculate the column number.

(you could probably have made the example a bit smaller, especially as 
it came out double spaced)

David

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