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From: "Derek Harmon" <loresayer@---.--->
To: NULL
Date: 1/3/2006 12:07:00 AM

"cardinallijr" <cardinallijr@g...> wrote in message news:1136176088.856961.198100@g......
> Hi all, sorry about the simple question but I'm new to XSL. I have a
> XML with 4 elements,
:    :
> What I want to do is to generate a HTML table with 2 columns(2
> products) in each row.

Try the following stylesheet,

- - - TwoByTwo.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >

<xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
        <head>
            <title>Demo 2x2 Table</title>
        </head>
        <body bgcolor='lightgray'>
            <table>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="/root/products/product[position() mod 2 = 1]" />
            </table>
        </body>
    </html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/root/products/product[position() mod 2 = 1]">
    <tr>
        <td>Product <xsl:value-of select="id" /></td>
        <td>Product <xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::product/id"/></td>
    </tr>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
-- 

Takeaway from this is that you match on the first (leftmost) product in each row by
looking for the product in a position whose remainder is 1 after dividing by the
desired number of columns (in this case, 2).

This template is responsible for all products grouped into that row.  You can use
XPath's following-sibling:: axis to reach successive products' content to pull it into
this template and make that content part of the cells you render in the same row.


Derek Harmon

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