Re: [xsl] too many columns

Thanks a lot, Jarno & Mike,

Awsome!
However I have 2 questions here:

1.
See,  the thing is that i will never know how many of those A1, A2 elements
(and so on)  I will have. Once it might be only 2, 4, who knows. So is there
a way that I can make the template dynamic? I mean this one (now I have 6
A's there):

<xsl:template match="A1|A2|A3|A4|A5|A6">
    <td valign="top">
    <xsl:attribute name="style">color:#<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="@color">
    <xsl:value-of select="@color" />
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>000000</xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>;background-color:#<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="@fond">
    <xsl:value-of select="@fond" />
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>FFFFFF</xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>;</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:value-of select="." />
    </td>
</xsl:template>

2.
The second question is that I would like to start look into XSLT 1.0... Can
you please point me to a resource to learn that? I would like to make this
move.


Thanks a lot !!!
Gabi.






----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Brown" <mike@xxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] too many columns


> Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I have a xml/xsl duet where i would like to render multiple
> > > tables with the
> > > info that is between the <Page></Page> tags as seen in the
> > > XML (source) here
> > > http://65.104.178.73/print.xml
> >
> > For future reference, it would probably be better if you posted a sample
from your source that shows the problem, instead of pointing to a file on
the net, so people won't have to wget it.
>
> There's nothing wrong with posting a URL to the source. It's a not a large
> file at all, but is larger than ought to be posted to the list.
>
> One problem with the source, offhand, is that there are elements named
> 'XMLData' and 'XMLNodeName'. While this doesn't break well-formedness, it
is
> in violation of the XML 1.0 spec, because it starts with 'XML' yet isn't a
> name standardized upon by the W3C. Choose a different name that does not
start
> with 'XML' (case-insensitive).
>
> > > However, my column headers are rendered perfectly fine, but I
> > > have more columns that I need instead of having the first
> > > <Page></Page>table content
> > > in the first table and the second <Page></Page> in the second table.
> > >
> > > It is hard to explain but I guess seeing it will help you understand.
> > >
> > > The stylesheet is here:
> > > http://65.104.178.73/print.xsl
> >
> > Anyhow, it seems that you're using the
Microsoft-XSL-dialect-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-XSLT-1.0. Thus, you should
either ask Microsoft for assistance or e.g. see Microsoft XSL FAQ
<http://www.netcrucible.com/xslt/msxml-faq.htm>, or rewrite you stylesheet
in XSLT 1.0, and come back if you're having problems with that.
>
> I wasn't going to attempt to reproduce the VBScript's functionality, but
it
> looks like most of it wasn't even needed. The following does not use any
> pre-XSLT-1.0-specific constructs, and will probably produce output very
close
> to what was expected. It seems to work in IE, but I can't test with MSXML2
> (IE5.0), myself.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
>
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     <html>
>       <head>
>         <style type="text/css">
>      p.page {page-break-after: always}
>      body {background-color:#cccccc; margin:0
>            font:MessageBox;
>            font:Message-Box;}
>     .TableBody {background: white;
>        font-family: arial;
>        font-size: 9px}
>     .TableHeading  {border-top-width:1;
>        border-left-width:1;
>        border-bottom-width:1;
>        border-right-width:1;
>        border-right-color:black;
>        border-bottom-color:black;
>        border-style:outset;
>        font-family:verdana;
>        font-size:10px;
>        background-color:#cccccc}
>         </style>
>         <!-- rest of head here -->
>       </head>
>       <body>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="XMLData/Page" />
>       </body>
>     </html>
>   </xsl:template>
>
>   <xsl:template match="Page">
>     <p class="page">
>       <table style="background: black" cellspacing="1" width="600">
>         <thead>
>           <xsl:apply-templates select="Columns/Column" mode="thead" />
>         </thead>
>         <tbody class="TableBody">
>           <xsl:apply-templates select="People/Person" />
>         </tbody>
>       </table>
>     </p>
>   </xsl:template>
>
>   <xsl:template match="Caption">
>     <xsl:value-of select="." />
>   </xsl:template>
>
>   <xsl:template match="Column" mode="thead">
>     <th nowrap="yes" class="TableHeading">
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="Caption" />
>     </th>
>   </xsl:template>
>
>   <xsl:template match="Person">
>     <tr>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="Data/*" />
>     </tr>
>   </xsl:template>
>
>   <xsl:template match="A1|A2|A3|A4|A5|A6">
>     <td valign="top">
>       <xsl:attribute name="style">color:#<xsl:choose>
>           <xsl:when test="@color">
>               <xsl:value-of select="@color" />
>           </xsl:when>
>           <xsl:otherwise>000000</xsl:otherwise>
>         </xsl:choose>;background-color:#<xsl:choose>
>           <xsl:when test="@fond">
>               <xsl:value-of select="@fond" />
>           </xsl:when>
>           <xsl:otherwise>FFFFFF</xsl:otherwise>
>         </xsl:choose>;</xsl:attribute>
>       <xsl:value-of select="." />
>     </td>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> If you change the namespace, it should work as XSLT 1.0.
>
> Note that I did circumvent the logic for finding which 'A' element to
process
> (A1, A2, A3, etc.) by looking at the Column specifications. The example
data
> had them all in order. If they will not really be in order, and since
MSXML2
> does not permit the XPath functions that would be needed to sort them,
you'll
> have to ask in an MSXML specific forum.
>
> Anyway, I hope this helps at least with sorting out the colors and number
> of columns, and helps reduce the stylesheet to a more manageable size.
> There was a lot of unnecessary stuff in it. In general, any time you do
>
> <xsl:template match="foo">
>   <xsl:for-each select="bar">
>     ...
>   </>
> </>
>
> you probably could have changed the xsl:apply-templates to select
> "foo/bar", and then made a template that matches bar instead of foo.
>
>    - Mike
>
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