This worked perfectly. Thanks Roger.
Can you point me to where I can find the position() function?
And maybe some other functions similar to it.
-James

> 
> From: "Roger Glover" <glover_roger@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2003/01/29 Wed PM 12:53:31 EST
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE:  XSL to HTML table problem
> 
> James [mailto:arcjah@xxxxxxxx] wrote:
> 
> > I have an xml document that looks like the following:
> > <Dictionary>
> >     <WordDefinition>
> >            <Word>Some Word</Word>
> >            <Definition>First Definition</Definition>
> >            <Definition>Second Definition</Definition>
> >            <Definition>Third Definition</Definition>
> >     </WordDefinition>
> >     <WordDefinition>
> >            <Word>Second Word</Word>
> >            <Definition>First Definition</Definition>
> >            <Definition>Second Definition</Definition>
> >     </WordDefinition>
> > </Dictionary>
> >
> > I have an xslt document that looks like the following:
>    o /
> ----X---------- <snip>
>    O \
> > <xsl:for-each select="Dictionary/WordDefinition">
> >     <xsl:sort select="Word"/>
> >     <tr bgcolor="#99CCFF"><td><xsl:value-of
> select="Word"/></td><td><br/></td></tr>
> >     <xsl:for-each select="Definition">
> >         <tr bgcolor="#99CCAA"><td><br/></td><td><xsl:value-of
> select="."/></td></tr>
> >     </xsl:for-each>
> > </xsl:for-each>
>    o /
> ----X---------- <snip>
>    O \
> > (My problem is, I want the word and first definition on the same row.)
> > The above xsl transforms the xml document into a html document
> > that has the word on one row, in the first column and the
> > defintions in the second, third and forth row in the second column.
> >
> > Again I want to figure out how to make the word and first
> > definition sit on the same row.
> >
> > I've heard about indexing the elements but I've never seen any
> > examples of this.
> 
> Try the following in place of the isolated portion above:
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="Dictionary/WordDefinition">
>     <xsl:sort select="Word"/>
>     <tr bgcolor="#99CCFF">
>         <td><xsl:value-of select="Word"/></td>
>         <td><xsl:value-of select="Definition[1]"/></td> <!-- first def -->
>     </tr>
>     <xsl:for-each select="Definition[position() > 1]"> <!-- later defs -->
>         <tr bgcolor="#99CCAA">
>             <td><br/></td>
>             <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
>         </tr>
>     </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> 
> -- Roger Glover
>    glover_roger@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
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