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First Posted	04/16/2002
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Create an N-Column Table from XML node-set

Summary Transforms a list of elements into a N-column table

I was stuggling with this problem recently and although I knew what approach I wanted to take my XSLT skill wasn't polished enough to implement it. Pedro Gil's solution to the same problem here at TopXML provided me with the missing pieces I needed to create this simplification.

I don't think it gets much more simple than this.

The Ncols parameters defines how many columns you want to output.

Max Hodges, MCP
Web Database Administrator
Dell Computer Japan

(inspired by Pedro Gil's Table with more than one column
Also, credit to Charles White who independently arrived at a very similar solution.)

First I show a very simple case, then I show a more complex case where the production rules for the formation of td tags has been externalized into a separate template for reusability.

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<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:param name="Ncols" select="4"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html><body><table border="1"> <xsl:apply-templates select="/data/row[position() mod $Ncols = 1~"/> </table></body></html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="/data/row"> <tr><td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td> <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::row[position() < $Ncols~"> <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td> </xsl:for-each> </tr> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:param name="Ncols" select="3"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html><body><table border="1"> <xsl:apply-templates select="/external_links/link[position() mod $Ncols = 1~"/> </table></body></html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="/external_links/link"> <tr><xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::link[position() < $Ncols~|." mode="td"/></tr> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="/external_links/link" mode="td"> <td><a href = "{@url}"><xsl:value-of select="@description" /></a></td> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

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<data> <row>1</row> <row>2</row> <row>3</row> <row>4</row> <row>5</row> <row>6</row> <row>7</row> <row>8</row> <row>9</row> <row>10</row> <row>11</row> <row>12</row> </data> <external_links> <link url="http:\\www.cnn.com" description="CNN"/> <link url="http:\\www.msnbc.com" description="MSNBC"/> <link url="http:\\www.yahoo.com" description="Yahoo!"/> <link url="http:\\www.dell.om" description="Dell Computer"/> <link url="http:\\www.aol.com" description="AOL"/> <link url="http:\\www.theonion.com" description="The Onion"/> <link url="http:\\www.amazon.com" description="Amazon"/> <link url="http:\\www.ameritrade.com" description="Ameritrade"/> <link url="http:\\www.google.com" description="Google"/> </external_links>

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