I need to add missing column based on column count
I have
 <table>
        <tgroup cols="2">
          <colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="1.00*" />
          <colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="4.47*" />
          <thead>
            <row>
              <entry>Request Number:</entry>
              <entry>Changes since last revision:</entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody >
            <row>
              <entry>R07-1171</entry>

            </row>
            <row>
              <entry />
              <entry />
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry />
              <entry />
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry>New topic released on 2007-03-19, <b>Rev. 1.0</b></entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>

As first row contains only one entry but cols defined are 2 in tgroup.

I am able to get attribute value of tbody but I need attribute value of col in tgroup i.e parent's parent. Its inserting <entry> tag but not checking the condition.

<xsl:template match="row">
<row>
<xsl:variable name="noofcols" select="parent::tbody/attribute::try"/>
<b><xsl:value-of select="parent::tbody/attribute::try"/></b>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
  <xsl:if test="count(following-sibling::entry) &lt; $noofcols"><entry> </entry></xsl:if>

</row>

I was able match the count but I need to get parent's parent attribute value.

I don't see an attribute named try: I would expect

<xsl:variable name="noofcols" select="../../@cols"/>

In XSLT 2.0 you can then do:

<xsl:for-each select="$noofcols - count(entry)">
  <entry/>
</xsl:for-each>

In XSLT 1.0 there's a kludgy equivalent

<xsl:for-each select="(//node())[position() &lt;= ($noofcols - count(entry))]">
  <entry/>
</xsl:for-each>

Your use of following-sibling::entry isn't going to work, because a row doesn't have any following siblings that are entry's.



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Sorry there was mistake. I require total entry nodes to be equal to value of cols under a row. if <row><entry>df</entry></row>
It should be <row><entry>df</entry><entry><entry></row>

Hi
In the above case in thead section if two cols are present then in tbody rows should have same number of cols with same sequence.
eg
<table>
        <tgroup cols="2">
          <colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="1.00*" />
          <colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="4.47*" />
          <thead>
            <row>
              <entry>Request Number:</entry>
              <entry>Changes since last revision:</entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody >
            <row>
              <entry colname="col1" >R07-1171</entry>

            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="col2" > ABC-223</entry>
                         </row>
                     </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>

The out put should be
<table>
        <tgroup cols="2">
          <colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="1.00*" />
          <colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="4.47*" />
          <thead>
            <row>
              <entry>Request Number:</entry>
              <entry>Changes since last revision:</entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody >
            <row>
              <entry colname="col1" >R07-1171</entry>
              <entry colname="col2" ></entry>

            </row>
            <row>
<entry colname="col1" ></entry>
              <entry colname="col2" > ABC-223</entry>
                         </row>
                     </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>

I don't know how to check this as columns for difrernt table are going to be diffrerent . Kindly help me on this. Thanks

the following XSL will produce the result required by you:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="*" mode="all"/>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="*" mode="all">
        <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
            <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="*" mode="all"/>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="@*">
        <xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="tbody/row" mode="all">
        <xsl:variable name="pos" select="position()"/>
        <row>
            <xsl:for-each select="../../colspec">
                <entry colname="{@colname}">
                    <xsl:variable name="att" select="@colname"/>
                    <xsl:value-of select="../tbody/row[position()=$pos]/entry[@colname=$att]"/>
                </entry>
            </xsl:for-each>
        </row>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

PS
But I think this can be simplified, and I hope gurus will show a way for this.