Reports using XML,XSL and HTML

[Rajagopal Srinivasan <RSriniva at altera dot com>]

Hi

Iam working on a report that has sort and filter options based on columns in
the report. The report is in HTML and is generated using XSL from a XML
document.
The XML document is build from the database and sent to the client browser
thro a java servlet. The document is structured as follows

<ReportName>
	<Record>
		<col1>.....</col1>
		<col2>.....</col2>
		<col3>.....</col3>
		.....
		.....
		<colN>.....</colN>
	</Record>
	<Record>
		<col1>.....</col1>
		<col2>.....</col2>
		<col3>.....</col3>
		.....
		.....
		<colN>.....</colN>
	</Record>
	................
	................
	...............
</ReportName>

I use the xsl:for-each to iterate thro this document and display the report
in form of a HTML table. 

There are reports that are at least 400 to 600 rows long. How can  i give a
feature where the user can view only, lets say, 10 rows a time and uses  a
next and prev buttons to step thro the report in groups of 10 rows each. I
use IE5, i tried solving this problehm using the <xsl:variable>, but the
browser says 'Keyword xsl:variable may not be used here.'

Thanx for any  help.

regards
raj



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