Help required to plot seat map using xml and xslt

Smiley · August 4th, 2013, 03:58 AM

I have the following xml value which gives the primary information of seat map

<row noOfRows="72">
<column ctype="ST" cname="A"/>
<column ctype="ST" cname="B"/>
<column ctype="ST" cname="C"/>
<column ctype="AL"/>
<column ctype="ST" cname="D"/>
<column ctype="ST" cname="E"/>
<column ctype="ST" cname="F"/>
<column ctype="ST" cname="G"/>
<column ctype="AL"/>
<column ctype="ST" cname="H"/>
<column ctype="ST" cname="J"/>
<column ctype="ST" cname="K"/>
</row>

the node <row noOfRows="50"> is the information to create 50 rows and each column(ex:A,B,C,etc) should have 50 columns.

ex:
A [] [] [] [] [] ...... till 50
B [] [] [] [] [] ...... till 50
C [] [] [] [] [] ...... till 50
<column ctype="AL"/>
D [] [] [] [] [] ...... till 50
E [] [] [] [] [] ...... till 50
F [] [] [] [] [] ...... till 50
G [] [] [] [] [] ...... till 50
<column ctype="AL"/>
H [] [] [] [] [] ...... till 50
J [] [] [] [] [] ...... till 50
K [] [] [] [] [] ...... till 50

please help me to plot this information using XSLT

mhkay · August 4th, 2013, 08:43 AM

You haven't given enough information to provide concrete code, but in XSLT 2.0 you can do

Code:

<xsl:for-each select="1 to $N">
   ....
</xsl:for-each>

In XSLT 1.0 the usual trick for doing this is

Code:

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

which works so long as there are at least $N nodes in your input document.