RE: [xsl] Column Ordering Design Question

["Chris Bayes" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lou,
Have a look at the beer filtering tutorial on my site section 5 should
be close to what you want. Modify it a little by passing in a comma
separated list of columns in the order you want. i.e <xsl:param
name="columnOrder" select="1,2,3,4" />
Then in the beer template do something like
<xsl:variable name="dot" select="." />
<tr>
  <xsl:for-each select="xx:tokenize($columnOrder, ',')">
    <td><xsl:value-of select="$dot/*[.]" /></td>
  </xsl:for-each>
</tr>

Ciao Chris

XML/XSL Portal
http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of L Rutker
> Sent: 10 September 2001 15:00
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Column Ordering Design Question
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I have a question about the proper way to implement the following:
> 
> 1)allow customers to select the columns that they want to 
> see. 2)Select the order of columns.
> 
> My question is how do we control the users pref for column 
> numbers and 
> ordering. The columns get language specific headers from the 
> presentation 
> server (added to the original XSL in an XSL > XSL tarnsform) 
> while the 
> column data comes from the data server.
> What we thought of doing is use JSP tags in the XSL (all XSL 
> "components" 
> for a page are included in a JSP page) to control the 
> ordering of XSL. This 
> leads to messy code and a mix of XSL presentation layer in 
> JSP tags. (the 
> requirement for tags exists regardless to allow us to 
> selectively "cut out" 
> parts of the XSL based on the users entitlement). These XML 
> format tags are 
> inserted into the original XSL What we thought of was storing 
> all column 
> headers as XSL variables in the first transform and at 
> request time pass an 
> XSL param to the transformer with the number of columns and 
> their order 
> (probably a comma separated string) and to somehow use this 
> to layout our 
> columns.
> Is this the way to go?
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to implement this, or 
> better yet does 
> anyone have any better ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Lou
> 
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