HTML Table with Dynamic Columns

[Fresh Air Rider]

Hello

Does anyone know how to display data from a data source such as an
array or SqlDataReader or XML etc within an HTML table whose number of
columns can change according to the value of a variable ?

This is one thing that XSL is brilliant at but I can't find a nice
..Net solution

The following is how it can easily be achieved in XSL.

-------- XML file -------------

<root>
<letter>a</letter>
<letter>b</letter>
<letter>d</letter>
<letter>c</letter>
<letter>f</letter>
<letter>e</letter>
<letter>g</letter>
<letter>h</letter>
<letter>i</letter>
</root>

------- XSL file --------------

<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:variable name="columns" select="6" />
<TABLE>
<xsl:for-each select="letter[position() mod $columns = 1]">
<TR>
<xsl:for-each select=".|following-sibling::letter[position()
&lt; $columns]">
<TD>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</TD>
</xsl:for-each>
</TR>
</xsl:for-each>
</TABLE>
</xsl:template>

[Mujtaba Syed]

In .NET 1.1, you could load the XML into a DataSet and then bind the DataSet
to a DataGrid (which will get rendered as a HTML table).
In ASP.NET 2.0, there is an XmlDataSource control which makes your job even
easier.

But if you don't want to use the DataGrid in .NET 1.1, you could write a few
lines of code to write out a table by iterating through the DataRows in the
first DataTable of the DataSet.

Mujtaba.

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Hello

Does anyone know how to display data from a data source such as an
array or SqlDataReader or XML etc within an HTML table whose number of
columns can change according to the value of a variable ?

This is one thing that XSL is brilliant at but I can't find a nice
.Net solution

The following is how it can easily be achieved in XSL.

-------- XML file -------------

<root>
<letter>a</letter>
<letter>b</letter>
<letter>d</letter>
<letter>c</letter>
<letter>f</letter>
<letter>e</letter>
<letter>g</letter>
<letter>h</letter>
<letter>i</letter>
</root>

------- XSL file --------------

<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:variable name="columns" select="6" />
<TABLE>
<xsl:for-each select="letter[position() mod $columns = 1]">
<TR>
<xsl:for-each select=".|following-sibling::letter[position()
&lt; $columns]">
<TD>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</TD>
</xsl:for-each>
</TR>
</xsl:for-each>
</TABLE>
</xsl:template>