Re: [xsl] Turning off 'well-formedness'

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Richard,

The classic solution to your problem would pick up every third <Record> and 
group its next two siblings with it, along the lines of:

<xsl:template match="Record">
   <xsl:if test="(count(preceding-sibling::Record) mod 3) = 1">
   <!-- works on first, fourth, seventh Records, etc. -->
     <td>
       <xsl:apply-templates/>
       <br/>
       <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::Record(position() &lt; 3)">
          <!-- picks up the next two Records -->
          <xsl:apply-templates/>
          <br/>
       </xsl:for-each>
     </td>
   </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

You say you want a <br> after every entry; but you can see here it's easy 
enough to put one just before 2nd and 3rd rows, not after each.

Also, you can see how easy it is to parameterize this: just change the 
number '3' into a parameter to make bigger or smaller groups.

Don't try to 'turn off well-formedness' -- the language is built to work 
with it, not without it. Whenever you think it's in the way, it's probably 
because your approach to the problem isn't XSL-ish enough.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 04:20 PM 1/9/02, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I am trying to create the following marked-up tags using MSXML3 on an IE5.x
>browser:
>
><td>
>         data1 <br />
>         data2 <br />
>         data3 <br />
></td>
><td>
>         data4 <br />
>         data5 <br />
>         data6 <br />
></td>
>----------------------------------------------------------
>my source file looks like:
>
><Data>
>     <Record>data</Record>
>     <Record>data</Record>
>     <Record>data</Record>
>     <Record>data</Record>
>     <Record>data</Record>
>     <Record>data</Record>
></Data>
>----------------------------------------------------------


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