Re: [xsl] alphabetic counters

[Nicholas Shanks <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 May 2004, at 20:18, Passin, Tom wrote:

> You just need to start thinking in terms of taking a set of nodes and
> operating on them, rather than in terms of spitting out bits and pieces
> in order.

Thanks again to all of you (sorry, went to London for six hours :)
I just got back, read your emails and had a think about node trees and 
such.

I'm now doing this:

for-each select="star"
  sort stars
  for-each select="planet"
    sort planets
    if position = 1
      <th rowspan="{count(../planet)}"><value-of ../starname></th>
    /if
   <td>'s go here
  /for-each
/for-each

It works and is better than cdata everywhere, but using ../ still feels 
like a hack.
So for people keeping score, Sablotron now fails to output anything 
matching on id() but the other three all work. Libxslt sorts 
differently when matching non-existant nodes and is about 8x faster 
than Saxon and Xalan, but that's it.
Also, Mozilla now displays something, but it's not very good (cannot 
seemingly handle variables nor id() selectors)

I will look at keys tomorrow morning. Must sleep :)
Thanks again everyone.

On 10 May 2004, at 19:52, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:

> Right now, it seems you are only using one template to control the 
> entire
> transformation. Unfortunately, the XSL and the HTML are the only files 
> I can
> view from the links below (dtd is in the wrong location, or is 
> referenced
> improperly from the xml?):
> > If you want to take a look at everything, these are the URLs:
> > http://astro.nickshanks.com/library/extrasolar.en.html > HTML after
> > processing
> > http://astro.nickshanks.com/library/extrasolar.xml
> > http://astro.nickshanks.com/stylesheets/extrasolar.xsl
> > http://astro.nickshanks.com/dtds/extrasolar.dtd

All four URIs are valid. After downloading the XML file you will need 
to change the DTD reference in the doctype so it works on your lan. it 
was easier for me to just put //astro/ for testing than to reconfigure 
my machine to search NetInfo before DNS so it would resolve a FQDN to a 
192.168 address. :-)

- Nick.