Hi ,
 i am trying the set the width for a particular cell
consider the table (only a small piece given here, mine actual is with some more columns and rows)

+---------------------------------+
! aaa !bbb !ccc ! ddd !
!-----+------------+----+---------!
! 1 !Sample_data1!123-! data1234!
! ! !456-! data4569!
! ! !789 ! data8901!
!---------------------------------!

in the above table which i displayed using XSLT in Internet Explorer.
i need the width of cell under "ccc" to be expanded so that data under that same column will be adjusted to same width...am i right here?
so the the data 123-456-789 is displayed in a single line.

I used the follwoing XSLT code
<xsl:template name="Symbols">
               <tr bgcolor="#C0C0C0">
             <xsl:for-each select ="./Symbols/Name">
                  <xsl:variable name="temp" select="text()"/>
                   <xsl:choose>
                      <xsl:when test='$temp="ccc"'>
                        <td width="200" align="left"><b> <xsl:value-of select="."/></b></td>
                      </xsl:when>
                      <xsl:otherwise>
                         <td align="left" bgcolor="00ff00"><b><xsl:value-of select="."/></b></td>
                      </xsl:otherwise>
                   </xsl:choose>
             </xsl:for-each>
       </tr>
</xsl:template>

the above code works if the header(first row) alone present , but again the "ccc" cell gets compressed when i add further rows under that...
How can i get the cell expanded to the given given width for the entire "ccc" column?
can anyone help with it?

Note:
copy and paste the above table in the notepad for proper display.



Venki

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Venki

You haven't given any clues about what the source document looks like.

I'm a bit confused anyway. Surely you don't have to specify width on every td in a column of a table for the browser to render the column with a constant width?

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

My sample source file is given here.As i said before the sample i given here is only the part, my actual file contains more number of rows and columns (i.e. in actual source file more number of Instance and DataSet Tabs will appear, for every Instance Tabs new row is introduced)

sample source code:

<Root>
    <Symbols>
      <Name Width="1">aaa</Name>
      <Name Width="1.5">bbb</Name>
      <Name Width="1">ccc</Name>
      <Name Width="1">ddd</Name>

    </Symbols>
    <Instance>
      <DataSet>
        <Data>1</Data>
      </DataSet>
      <DataSet>
        <Data>sample_data1</Data>
      </DataSet>
      <DataSet>
        <Data>123-456-789</Data>
      </DataSet>
      <DataSet>
        <Data>data1234data4569data8901</Data>
      </DataSet>
     </Instance>
</Root>

how can i make my cell in a same column to display constant specified width ?

Venki