Re: [xsl] using attribute value as an attribute name OR using elementvalue as an attribute name

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>]

Hello Ross,

ross@webwolves.com wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Thank you again for helping me with this. Have you written a book or
> anything I can buy? :-)
>
> We are getting very close. I can output the name of each column, but somehow
> I am having trouble figuring how to actually use that column name as the
> data attribute name. Your original syntax:
>
> <xsl:value-of select="$row/@*[name()=.]">
Yes, this seems to be wrong. It's true for every attribute, whose value 
is the same as its name, e.g. test="test". Both name() and . refer to 
the attribute.

> ...didn't didn't seem to work (I get no data). And yet if I do <xsl:value-of
> select="." /> I do get the column names. Here's what I have so far, which is
> basically a straight copy of what you gave me.
>
> 	<xsl:variable name="columns"
> select="/root/config/columnList/column/@name"/>
This will only store the value of the first column in the variable (a 
string). Change it to
<xsl:variable name="columns" select="/root/config/columnList/column"/>
to store a node set of the columns.

> <table width="95%" class="reporttable" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
>   <xsl:for-each select="/root/row">
>     <tr>
>       <xsl:variable name="aRow" select="."/>
>       <xsl:for-each select="$columns">
          <xsl:variable name="aColumnsName" select="name()"/>

>         <td>
            <xsl:value-of select="$aRow/column[@name = $aColumnsName]" />

>         </td>
>       </xsl:for-each>
>     </tr>
>   </xsl:for-each>
> </table>
Also untested and without knowing the XML structure, but I hope it works ...
> Thanks again.
>
> == Ross ==
Regards,

Joerg

PS: Please don't use TABs as indenting in mails. They made XML really 
unreadable. 2 or 4 spaces are really enough.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of David
> Carlisle
>
> > The column ordering is a concern. The sort simply does an alphabetic
> > sort. Somehow I need to apply the user's column selection order as well.
>
> ah I was lacking meta markup. I did xsl:sort on name because that would
> work for column1 column2 etc, I should have known they were not the real
> names....
>
> so actually I'd zap the key and instead do
>
> <xsl:variable name="columns"
> select="/root/config/columnList/column/@name"/>
> ....
> <xsl:for-each select="row">
> <xsl:variable name="row" select="."/>
> <xsl:for-each select="$columns">
>   <xsl:value-of select="$row/@*[name()=.]">
>
> untested as ever.
>
> David


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