nested if enhancement?

[Stephen (archive)]

I want to retrieve the name attribute from each of the entrydata elements in the very first viewentry element to create table headings. My XSL works by looping through all the elements and checking if it is the first element. Then grab the name attribute from each of the entrydata elements for the column title. The table must be created dynamically since this XSL format will be applied to different XML data. I think there is probably a more efficient method than the nested if statements. Perhaps a "getFirst" or something? Would someone suggest an improvement?

My XML:
<viewentries toplevelentries="46">
<viewentry position="1">
<entrydata columnnumber="0" name="Customer Name">
<text>Pickett, Simona</text>
</entrydata>
<entrydata columnnumber="2" name="Phase">
<text>Port Review</text>
</entrydata>
</viewentry>
</viewentries>

My XSL:
<xsl:for-each select="viewentries/viewentry">
<xsl:if test="position=1">
<xsl:for-each select="entrydata">
<th><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></th>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

Thank you.

 

[Dimitre Novatchev MVP XML]

Use:

/*/viewentry[1]/entrydata/@name

This selects the nodeset of name attributes that you want to use to create table headings.

Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev [XML MVP],
FXSL developer, XML Insider,

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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