HI I'm not an expert in Xsl either, but maybe this kind of thing is a lot easier in .Net itself
here's a tip on calling .NEt code from xsl, maybe that can help you out http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/pascal/archive/2005/04/21/3658.aspx with kind regards Ruben Willems On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:27 PM, CinnamonDonkey < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've been trying to solve this problem for a while now and just can't > get my head around this weird XSL business (Who comes up with a > language that only allows you to assign to a variable once?). > > Given XML looking something like: > > <Modifications> > <Modification> > <changeNumber>123<changeNumber> > <comment>changes for 123<comment> > <file>file1.cpp</file> > </Modification> > <Modification> > <changeNumber>123<changeNumber> > <comment>changes for 123<comment> > <file>file2.cpp</file> > </Modification> > <Modification> > <changeNumber>124<changeNumber> > <comment>changes for 124<comment> > <file>file1.cpp</file> > </Modification> > <Modification> > <changeNumber>125<changeNumber> > <comment>changes for 125<comment> > <file>file1.cpp</file> > </Modification> > <Modification> > <changeNumber>125<changeNumber> > <comment>changes for 125<comment> > <file>file2.cpp</file> > </Modification> > <Modifications> > > I want to see a table looking like: > > 123 changes for 123 > 124 changes for 123 > 125 changes for 125 > > and not: > > 123 changes for 123 > 123 changes for 123 > 124 changes for 123 > 125 changes for 125 > 125 changes for 125 > > > That is; I what to not render a row if the change number for the > current row being rendered is the same as that of the preceeding row. > > The closest I have come in my solution so far is: > > > <xsl:for-each select="//modification"> > <xsl:sort select="changeNumber" order="descending" data- > type="text" /> > <xsl:if test="(position() = 1) or (changeNumber != preceding- > sibling::modification[1]/changeNumber)"> > <tr> > <td class="table-text" valign="top"> <xsl:value-of > select="changeNumber"/> </td> > <td class="table-text" valign="top"> <xsl:value-of > select="comment"/ > > </td> > </tr> > </xsl:if> > </xsl:for-each> > > But this seems to skip entries when I have long lists of > modifications. > > So the challenge is layed down! Come on clever cloggs! > > Please help, > Shaun > >
