Colspan problem

[ceolino]

Hi everybody,
I have a problem with an xsl document. I have to generate a table from
an xml document. This table has got a variable number of columns, but
after last data row I'd like to add a "Total row", which colspan should
be the number of columns less one:

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| A | 1 | 2 | ....................|
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| B | 1 | 2 |.....................|
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|.............................................|
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| Total | 3 |
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I tried to put the colspan value into a variable..but then I obviously
can't retrieve it and put it into colspan td's attribute.
Can someone help me please?

Thanks in advance!!

Davide

 

[Andy Dingley]

generate a table from
an xml document. This table has got a variable number of columns, but
after last data row I'd like to add a "Total row", which colspan should
be the number of columns less one:

Find some XPath expression that identifies the set of columns.
Use count() to count this
Use count()-1 to find the value you need. Maybe store this in a
variable,
Place this value into the <td colspan="..." > attribute by using either

the <td colspan="{$my-colspan-count}" > syntax with a variable,
or by using
<td><xsl:attribute name="colspan" ><xsl:value-of
select="count($my-columns) -1" /></xsl:attribute>
[...]
</td>