HI Eric,  as always thanks for your help!

I am getting so close.  What you
gave me didn't completely solve the problem, but it helped me to think what
the context is, and I did some more research to get the table looking like I
wanted.  (Not sure if it is the best way to do it, but I can worry about that
later).  

So I have my table built with all the source changes, now I want to
add a row with the 'diffs' for each change(could be 30 or more nodes).  The
challenge is after i have grabbed  the the File, version, date etc for the
first row,  I need to then somehow grab all the data nodes where @field=diff,
until the next node where @field!=diff, and place it in the next row.  Off
topic, I plan on using JavaScript to hide the diff detail unless use wants to
see it.  Seems like a while loop, but I know those don't exist.  I also am
currently experimenting with named templates, although struggling with how to
set context.  

Sorry this is so muddled, let me know if you need
clarifications.  
Thanks again,

Bernie



----- Original Message ----
From:
Eric J. Bowman <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
bernie bonn <moochambo@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, March 27, 2010 3:22:26 AM
Subject: Re:  Create Table

> 
> So this answer extends the example
already given, by adding the number
> () function.
>

Heh, don't listen to me,
I'm still learning myself... number() isn't 
needed here, as this works just
fine:

<th><xsl:value-of select='./@lineId+1'/></th>

What I've just learned,
is that I need to take a closer look at how
XSLT processors handle typing, my
answer assumed number() was needed in
order to perform addition like you were
trying, and was thus totally 
wrong.

Anyway, I played around with it a bit
more, adding this to my <tr>
template:

<xsl:param name='x'
select='./@lineId'/>

And changing the <th> two different ways, as follows:
<th><xsl:value-of select='following-sibling::data[@lineId=$x]/@lineId'/></th>
<th><xsl:value-of
select='following-sibling::data[@lineId=$x+1]/@lineId'/></th>

The first line
results in <th/>, the second line works as expected.
The first line can be
rewritten as select='//data[@lineId=$x]/@lineId' 
and it will work as
expected.  So I suspect your problem is one of not
minding your context node,
i.e. you started with this:

<xsl:param name='x' select='./@lineId'/>

Then,
you have <xsl:value-of select='data[@lineId=$x]'/>, which can't 
work  because
you haven't selected an axis...  So it's hard to know how 
to specifically
help you here -- the 'data[@lineId=$x]' is correct, but 
only if it's preceded
by a proper axis, and followed by '/@lineId' since 
you're after attribute
content, instead of element content.

-Eric