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XSL

Asked by smithdale87 in Extensible Markup Language (XML), Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)

Consider the XML snipped below.

I'm trying to transform that format into a table as follows, where I have one single row for each unique Name in my XML. Then, have separate columns for each date, along with the corresponding text in <Whatever> for that date.

Note: The XML file will have all same-name records grouped together, rather than scattered throughout the file

Name   6/1/08     6/2/08
...
Joe       Foo         Bar
Jim        FFF         FFF
...


The problem lies in the xsl code ( see below ) that I'm trying to do this with.
The <tr></tr> elements have to come in pairs in the xsl:when statement. But I don't want that.
If I start a new row, it means I found a new Name, but I only process the first <Whatever> that the person did, then I'm forced to add a </tr>.


Does that make sense? Hope so :-)

Thanks in advance!

Oh and by the way, the xsl code my have syntactical errors, but I hope you can see what I'm trying to do.

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//XML
 
...
<record>
  <Name>Joe</Name>
  <Date>6/1/08</Date>
  <Whatever>Foo</Whatever>
</record>
<record>
  <Name>Joe</Name>
  <Date>6/2/08</Date>
  <Whatever>Bar</Whatever>
</record>
...
 
 
 
//XSL
=========================================================
 
<xsl:for-each select="/record">
   <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="Name[.=preceding::Name]">
           <td>
             <xsl:value-of select="Whatever">
           </td>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test = "Name[not(.=preceding::Name)]">
           <tr>
             <td>
                  <xsl:value-of select="Name"/>
             </td>
             <td>
                  <xsl:value-of select="Whatever">
             </td>
           </tr>
      </xsl:when>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
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