Re: [xsl] Formatting table information

[Kamal Bhatt <kbhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is my code for the generation of tables:

<xsl:template match="Table">
   <xsl:param name="title"/>
  
   <xsl:variable name="table-pos" select="position()"/>
  
   <xsl:text>&newln;</xsl:text>
   <xsl:variable name="length">
      <xsl:call-template name="longest-str">
              <xsl:with-param name="set" select="Row/Cell[1]"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:variable>

   <xsl:for-each select="Row">
   <xsl:variable name="padded-cell">
       <xsl:call-template name="append-pad">
       <xsl:with-param name="pad-var" select="normalize-space(Cell[1])"/>
       <xsl:with-param name="length" select="$length"/>
       </xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:variable>
   <xsl:choose>
       <xsl:when test="position() = 1 and $table-pos = 1">   
       <!-- TEXT OUTPUT BEGINS -->
       <xsl:value-of select="$title"/>:<xsl:text>&tab;</xsl:text>
       <xsl:value-of select="$padded-cell"/>
       <xsl:text>&tab;</xsl:text>
       <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(Cell[2])"/>
       <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
           <xsl:text>&newln;</xsl:text>
       </xsl:if>
       <!-- TEXT OUTPUT ENDS -->
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:otherwise>
       <!-- TEXT OUTPUT BEGINS -->
       <xsl:text>&tab;</xsl:text>
       <xsl:value-of select="$padded-cell"/>
       <xsl:text>&tab;</xsl:text>
       <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(Cell[2])"/>
       <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
           <xsl:text>&newln;</xsl:text>
       </xsl:if>
       <!-- TEXT OUTPUT ENDS -->
       </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="longest-str">
  <xsl:param name="set"/>
  <xsl:param name="curr-max-size" select="0"/>
  <xsl:param name="index" select="1"/>

  <xsl:variable name="curr-size" select="string-length($set[$index])"/>

  <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="$index > count($set)">
               <xsl:value-of select="$curr-max-size"/>
   </xsl:when>
  
   <xsl:when test="string-length($set[$index]) > $curr-max-size">
        <xsl:call-template name="longest-str">
            <xsl:with-param name="set" select="$set"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="index" select="$index + 1"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="curr-max-size" select="$curr-size"/>
        </xsl:call-template>     
   </xsl:when>

   <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:call-template name="longest-str">
            <xsl:with-param name="set" select="$set"/>
          <xsl:with-param name="index" select="$index + 1"/>
       <xsl:with-param name="curr-max-size" select="$curr-max-size"/>
        </xsl:call-template>       
   </xsl:otherwise>    
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

<!-- Code taken from www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/padding.html -->

<xsl:template name="append-pad">
   <xsl:param name="pad-char"><xsl:text>&space;</xsl:text></xsl:param>
   <xsl:param name="pad-var"/>
   <xsl:param name="length"/>
   <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="string-length($pad-var) &lt; $length">
       <xsl:call-template name="append-pad">
        <xsl:with-param name="pad-char" select="$pad-char"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="pad-var"
                select="concat($pad-var, $pad-char)"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="length" select="$length"/>
       </xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
       <xsl:value-of select="substring($pad-var, 1, $length)"/>
   </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Ragulf Pickaxe wrote:

> > In a previous post I mentioned that that I have created a template to
> > format lines to a fixed width and a function to format a table. When I
> > said table, I meant something with only two columns. Now, I need to
> > format a table with three columns.
> >    
>
> Hi Kamal,
>
> I am not sure that I understand all your requirements, but for getting
> 3 columns, the solution is the same as for 2 columns, you will just
> have to use modulo 3 instead of modulo 2. I do not know whether this
> is enough to get you in the right direction.
>
> Regards,
> Ragulf Pickaxe :-)