looping in XSL

itsmaheshp · February 19th, 2009, 04:35 PM

Hi Guys,

I have an XML like this

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="foreach.xsl" ?>
<customers>
   <customer>
      <name>John Smith</name>
      <address>123 Oak St.</address>
      <state>WA</state>
      <phone>(206) 123-4567</phone>
   </customer>
   <customer>
      <name>Zack Zwyker</name>
      <address>368 Elm St.</address>
      <state>WA</state>
      <phone>(206) 423-4537</phone>
   </customer>
.....
.....
....
.... like this there are so many records..
</customers>

Now I need an XSL which will display 3 customers name in a HTML table like this....

Code:

<table>
<tr>
    <td>John Smith</td>
    <td>Zack Zwyker</td>
    <td>Some other customer name</td>
</tr>
<tr>
... like this the for loop goes to display only the customer names..
</tr>
</table>

JohnBampton · February 23rd, 2009, 02:32 AM

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <table>
            <xsl:for-each select="customers/customer[position() mod 3 = 1]">
                <tr>
                    
                    <td><xsl:value-of select="name"/></td>
                    <td><xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::customer[1]/name"/></td>
                    <td><xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::customer[2]/name"/></td>
                </tr>
            </xsl:for-each>
        </table>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Cheers, John Bampton

itsmaheshp · February 24th, 2009, 10:41 AM

Thanks for your reply.

since i also need to display the images with each name, i would end up with only images showing in the last row if there are < 3 items.

any clue how we can do this..?

Regards,
Mahesh

mhkay · February 24th, 2009, 10:47 AM

You didn't show any images in your source document, and I have no idea how you have tried to extend the code you were given to display images. If youv'e extended it incorrectly, you'd better show us what your code (and source document) look like so we can help you find your mistakes.