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As I've been developing my xsl scripts, I've realized that it would be beneficial to be able to write my xslt in such a way that it would dynamically format my page for an optimal view based on a few factors. Essentially, I have a very large table which contains data from its child node and its grandchild node. An example xml file would be: <data><text>Title for web page</text>
<data><text>Motivation</text>
<data><text>White Pages</text></data>
<data><text>References</text></data>
</data>
<data><text>Requirements</text>
<data><text>Software</text></data>
<data><text>Hardware</text></data>
</data>
<data><text>Design</text>
<data><text>Interfaces</text>
<data><text>Hardware/Software</text></data>
<data><text>Legacy Software</text></data>
</data>
<data><text>Functions</text></data>
</data>
<data><text>Implementation</text></data>
<data><text>Verification</text></data>
<data><text>Documentation</text></data>
<data><text>Archive</text></data>
</data>Note that there are 7 <data> elements that are children of the root node. In my table, I could display each one in their own row or column, but I would prefer to put three children on the first and second lines, and then a single child on the third line. An example of this would be: One per column: [Motivation] [Requirements] [Design] [Implementation] . .. . . One per row:
[Motivation]
[Requirements]
[Design]
.
. Optimal View:
[Motivation] [Requirements] [Design]
[Implementation] [Verification] [Documentation]
[Archives]The algorithm I would use to determine how many rows and columns would be as follows: T = Total number of children R = Number of children displayed per row C = Number of columns needed <!-- find T --> T = ?? <!-- initialize the values --> set R = 1 set C = T <!-- setup a loop to find the best numbers -->
while ( R < C and C > 1 )
R = R + 1
C = C - 1<!-- numbers should now be close to optimal, so start displaying --> So, my question is two-fold: How do I find T, and is there a slick way of converting the psuedo code above into XSLT? Thanks, Bix _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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