Re: [xsl] Counting following siblings for table spans

["G. Ken Holman g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope this helps, Rick.

~/t $ cat rick.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
  xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/math";
  exclude-result-prefixes="xs math"
  version="3.0">

<xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>

<xsl:template match="cell-1">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:attribute name="rows-spanned"
                   select="count(../following-sibling::row[empty(cell-1)]) -
                           count(../following-sibling::row[cell-1][1]/
                                    following-sibling::row[empty(cell-1)])
                           + 1"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
~/t $ xslt3 rick.xml rick.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><tbl>
    <row>
        <cell-1 rows-spanned="5"/>
        <cell-2>log book</cell-2>
        <cell-3>logbook</cell-3>
    </row>
    <row>
        <cell-2>AirVault</cell-2>
        <cell-3>Aircraft Records Database</cell-3>
    </row>
    <row>
        <cell-2>411</cell-2>
        <cell-3>aircraft data management</cell-3>
    </row>
    <row>
        <cell-2>Status Report</cell-2>
        <cell-3>MDR</cell-3>
    </row>
    <row>
        <cell-2>Removed M-Facility Directors (MFD)</cell-2>
    </row>
    <row>
        <cell-1 rows-spanned="3"/>
        <cell-2>All revisions will be submitted to the FAA for
review\x85</cell-2>
        <cell-3>All revisions of this manual will be submitted to the FAA for
review\x85</cell-3>
    </row>
    <row>
        <cell-2>Status Report</cell-2>
        <cell-3>MDR</cell-3>
    </row>
    <row>
        <cell-2>Removed M-Facility Directors (MFD)</cell-2>
    </row>
    <row>
        <cell-1 rows-spanned="2"/>
        <cell-2>All revisions will be submitted to the FAA for
review\x85</cell-2>
        <cell-3>All revisions of this manual will be submitted to the FAA for
review\x85</cell-3>
    </row>
    <row>
        <cell-2>411</cell-2>
        <cell-3>aircraft data management</cell-3>
    </row>
    <row>
        <cell-1 rows-spanned="1"/>
        <cell-2>All revisions will be submitted to the FAA for
review\x85</cell-2>
        <cell-3>All revisions of this manual will be submitted to the FAA for
review\x85</cell-3>
    </row>
</tbl>
~/t $

At 19/01/2026 18:34 +0000, rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>
>
>I have table data like this:
>
>
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><tbl>
>    <row>
>        <cell-1>Throughout</cell-1>
>        <cell-2>log book</cell-2>
>        <cell-3>logbook</cell-3>
>    </row>
>    <row>
>        <cell-2>AirVault</cell-2>
>        <cell-3>Aircraft Records Database</cell-3>
>    </row>
>    <row>
>        <cell-2>411</cell-2>
>        <cell-3>aircraft data management</cell-3>
>    </row>
>    <row>
>        <cell-2>Status Report</cell-2>
>        <cell-3>MDR</cell-3>
>    </row>
>    <row>
>        <cell-2>Removed M-Facility Directors (MFD)</cell-2>
>    </row>
>    <row>
>        <cell-1>1 / 1-2</cell-1>
>        <cell-2>All revisions will be submitted to the FAA for
review\x85</cell-2>
>        <cell-3>All revisions of this manual will be submitted to the FAA for
review\x85</cell-3>
>    </row>
></tbl>
>
>When I encounter a <cell-1> element, I need to count the immediately
following ../row elements that don\x92t have a <cell-1> child so I can
determine the row span value. In my example, the <cell-1> element would span
the following 4 rows because they don\x92t have <cell-1> elements. I am trying
to figure out a good algorithm for doing this. Thank you.
>
>
>
>Rick
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