RE: [RT] the quest for the perfect template language

[Robert Koberg]

Hmmm... You seem to be making this much more complex than it needs to be.

Why not do something like this:

XSL:
<xsl:template match="fotografie">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="foto">
  <div class="thumbnail" onclick="expandImage()">
    <div class="imageContainer">    
      <img src="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" class="img"/>
    </div>
    <div class="description">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
    </div>
  </div>
</xsl:template>

CSS:
.thumbnail {
display:inline;
margin:10px;
}

.imageContainer {
padding:3px;
border:1px solid blue;
}

.img {
width:20px;
height:20px;
}

.description {
font-size:80%;
padding:10px;
}

With this you can have you gallery have the columns fit the width of the
(resized) window and they will wrap when necessary. Perhaps I am missing why
you need the complexity?

Best,
-Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Steven Noels wrote:
> > On 3/04/2003 8:52 Jeff Turner wrote:
> >
> >> Pity about losing the declarative processing model.
> >
> >
> > Cannot agree more. Declarative is great SoC.
> 
> Get real: what is declarative in
> 
>   <xsl:choose>
>    <xsl:when test="...">
>     <xsl:call-template name="blah">
>      <xsl:with-param name="whatever>
>       <xsl:for-each select="node()">
>        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>       </xsl:for-each>
>      </xsl:with-param>
>     </xsl:call-template>
>    </xsl:when>
>    <xsl:otherwise>
>     ...
>    </xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> 
> ?
> 
> Here is the snipped code I had to write a few days ago in order to
> generate a table of picture thumbnails. Input is something like this
> 
>   ...
>   <fotografie>
>    <foto id="1">whatever</foto>
>    <foto id="2">blah</foto>
>   </fotografie>
>   ...
> 
> 
> The stylesheet looks like this:
> 
>    ...
> 
>    <xsl:template match="fotografie">
>     <table class="fotografie">
>      <xsl:call-template name="rowIterator">
>       <xsl:with-param name="row" select="0"/>
>       <xsl:with-param name="rows" select="ceiling(count(//foto) div
> $columns)"/>
>      </xsl:call-template>
>     </table>
>    </xsl:template>
> 
>    <!-- iterates over rows -->
>    <xsl:template name="rowIterator">
>     <xsl:param name="row"/>
>     <xsl:param name="rows"/>
>     <xsl:if test="$row &lt; $rows">
>      <tr valign="top">
>       <xsl:call-template name="columnIterator">
>        <xsl:with-param name="row" select="$row"/>
>        <xsl:with-param name="column" select="0"/>
>       </xsl:call-template>
>      </tr>
>      <xsl:call-template name="rowIterator">
>       <xsl:with-param name="rows" select="$rows"/>
>       <xsl:with-param name="row" select="$row + 1"/>
>      </xsl:call-template>
>     </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:template>
> 
>    <!-- iterates over columns -->
>    <xsl:template name="columnIterator">
>     <xsl:param name="row"/>
>     <xsl:param name="column"/>
>     <xsl:variable name="item" select="($row * $columns) + $column + 1"/>
>     <xsl:if test="$column &lt; $columns">
>      <td align="center" width="{format-number((1 div $columns), '##%')}">
>       <xsl:choose>
>        <xsl:when test="//foto[$item]">
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="//foto[$item]"/>
>        </xsl:when>
>        <xsl:otherwise>
>         <br/>
>        </xsl:otherwise>
>       </xsl:choose>
>      </td>
>      <xsl:call-template name="columnIterator">
>       <xsl:with-param name="row" select="$row"/>
>       <xsl:with-param name="column" select="$column + 1"/>
>      </xsl:call-template>
>     </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:template>