XSL Tables Created depending on content entered

[daveni2002]

Im currently trying to come up with the xsl to create a table depending on how much info is in the xml file e.g. use one template that will work with multiple number of different table sizes.

the xml used is:

<table>
<row> 
<columnname>cell</columnname>
<columnname>cell</columnname>
</row>
<row> <info>topcell</info><info>topcell</info>
</row>
<row> <info>topcell</info><info>topcell</info>
</row>
</table>
 

and the xsl I'm using at the minute is:

  <xsl:template match="table">
  <table width="200" border="1">
  <tr><xsl:value-of select="columnname"/></tr>
  <td><xsl:value-of select="info" /></td>
  </table>
  </xsl:template>
 

to me it makes great sense that this should take the info from the columnname element and put it in the first row, then take the data from the info element and insert into the rows after that. can anyone see why this may not be working?

Thanks

[jkmyoung]

Xpaths are not right. It looks like you're treating this almost as data islands (deprecated).

<xsl:template match="table">
  <table width="200" border="1">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </table>
</xsl:template>
 
<xsl:template match="row">
  <tr>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </tr>
</xsl:template>
 
<xsl:template match="columnname">
  <th><xsl:value-of select="."/></th>
</xsl:template>
 
<xsl:template match="info">
  <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
</xsl:template>