Re: Text Tables in style sheet output

[david_n_bertoni]

Hi Ryan,

For general XSLT questions, we always recommend that you subscribe to the
Mulberry Technologies XSL list:

   http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl

You can post your question there, and you will likely get lots of answers.
Also, take a look at Dave Pawson's XSL FAQ:

   http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/

One function which can help you is the EXSLT function padding:

   http://exslt.org/str/functions/padding/index.html

Xalan-C now implements a fair amount of EXSLT.

Dave



                                                                                
                                                                  
                      Ryan Sawatzky                                             
                                                                  
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                                               Subject: Text Tables in style 
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Hi everyone,

I am trying to make two style sheets.  One that transforms an XML
document into an HTML page, and the other transforms the same document
into a plain text output.  There is one section that is giving me
considerable difficulty.  I have to have the output appear in a table
like format.  This is probably best shown through an example.

The XML ----

<company>
    <phoneNumber>111-222-3333</phoneNumber>
    <phoneNumber>444-555-6666</phoneNumber>
    <phoneNumber>777-888-9999</phoneNumber>
    <faxNumber>123-456-7890</faxNumber>
    <contactInfo>John R Adams</contactInfo>
    <contactInfo>Mike B Smith</contactInfo>
</company>

All three elements (phone number, fax number, and contact info) can
occur zero through infinity times.

This is the desired output --------
(if you have this in variable-width font, then it wont look quite right)

Phone Number          Fax Number              Contact Info
111-222-3333          123-456-7890          John R Adams
444-555-6666                                            Mike B Smith
777-888-9999

I can do this easily in HTML, but the text format is rather difficult to
figure out.  Does anyone have an idea as to how this might be
accomplished.  I was trying to play around with counting the occurances
of all three element and figuring out the maximum ocurrance, but I have
been unable to get that to work.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
--Ryan