[xsl] Re: Merging nodes to process with FO

[Russell Levy <russlevy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

xsl-list-digest-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Why don't you just nest the loops instead of putting them adjacent to each other?
>
> Consider this little stysheet (change 'root' to a proper name) :
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>       xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
>
> <xsl:key name="occupant" match="occupant" use="unitid"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="root">
> <xsl:for-each select="unit">
> 	<xsl:variable name="unit" select="."/>
> 	<xsl:variable name="occupants" select="key('occupant',id)"/>
> 	<xsl:choose>
> 		<xsl:when test="$occupants">
> 			<xsl:for-each select="$occupants">
> 				<xsl:value-of select="$unit/name"/> | <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
> 				<xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
> 			</xsl:for-each>
> 		</xsl:when>
> 		<xsl:otherwise>
> 			<xsl:value-of select="$unit/name"/> | Vacant
> 		</xsl:otherwise>
> 	</xsl:choose>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>   
I had something like this (without using keys, as I just don't 
understand keys well enough other than to copy other people's examples 
:) ); the problem is that I was giving a simplified version of my 
problem. There are actually 7 or 8 columns per row, and it just seems 
that there must be a way that I don't have to have each column defined 
in both the when and the otherwise.

--Russell