Re: [xsl] mismatched tags with xsl:if

["Jonathan Cates" <catesj at home dot com>]

Yes, the answer to that question is in the FAQ.  In particular, look at the
tables example, and the sub topic
10. Multiple Rows in a Table

This, I believe is what you're looking for.



Jon



----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@iclway.co.uk>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 5:23 AM
Subject: RE: [xsl] mismatched tags with xsl:if


> > I'll explain a bit further what I'm trying to do.
>
> That's always a good idea! Coding problems usually boil down to people
> tackling the problem the wrong way. (And often turn out to be a FAQ!)
>
>  I actually
> > want to render a 3 collumns XHTML table with a list of items.
> > I want them to appear as follow :
> >
> > item1  item2  item3
> > item4  item5  item6
> > item7  ...
> >
> > To do so, I have a for-each loop over the items that
> > output the <td>item</td>.  Now I have to set some
> > condition to generate the <tr> and </tr> every three
> > items.
>
> The solution to this kind of grouping problem is along the lines of
>
> <xsl:for-each select="item[position() mod 3 = 1]">
>    <tr>
>      <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
>      <td><xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::item[1]"/></td>
>      <td><xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::item[2]"/></td>
>    </tr>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> Mike Kay
> Software AG
>
>
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