XSL multiple tables?

[minamo99]

Hello everyone,

I am a beginning programmer using XSLT.

I work at a company wich has a database witch generates catalogs,

exporting XSL and XML to FOP.(wich converts to PDF). the program runs on apache and is build in delphi.

That being said,

I was wondering if it is possible to put 2 tables next to eachother on the same page,Horizontally. I have not been able to find this yet,Nor did i find any complete examples.

Is there an easy way to do this?

With kind greetings,

Henk.

[iceandrews]

This is an HTML design problem, not an XSLT problem. What you want is "nested tables". Do some googling to learn how to nest 2 tables within a second table. Here's the first link I found.
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/help/archive.php/o_t__t_1472__i-need-tables-side-by-side..html

And example would look something like this, but there's many different ways to do it.

<table width="100%"  border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#FF0000">
  <tr>
    <td><table width="100%"  border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#00FF00">
      <tr>
        <td>table in left cell </td>
        <td>and another cell </td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
    <td><table width="100%"  border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#0000FF">
      <tr>
        <td>Table in right cell </td>
        </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>

Once you know what your HTML node tree needs to look like, creating that in XSLT is just like creating any other node tree structure.

[minamo99]

Thank you for your kind reply. problem i would like to be able to do it with XLS:FO.

let me give you an example of my tables.

/fo:table>
		<fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%">
		<fo:table-column column-width="50%"/>
      <fo:table-column column-width="90%"/>
			<fo:table-body>
		
				<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always">

				   <fo:table-cell>
						<fo:block font-size="18pt"	   
							font-family="serif"
							font-weight="italic" 
							font-style="italic"
							text-align="center"
							color="	#E8A317"
							linefeed-treatment = "treat-as-space"
							white-space-collapse = "true"
							white-space-treatment = "ignore-if-surrounding-linefeed"
							wrap-option = "wrap"
							border-width="4.0mm"
							border-style="groove"
							border-color="red"
							background-color="#E3E4FA"
							padding="8pt">
						  
							  
							<fo:block font-weight="cursive">
						  <xsl:text>Pdfje van Henk! </xsl:text>
          
                        </fo:block>
                         <fo:block>
                        <fo:block font-weight="bold">
                
				<xsl:for-each select="item"/>
					<xsl:value-of select="./@caption"/>

                        </fo:block>
						<fo:block>
                  
						
							<xsl:apply-templates select="item"></xsl:apply-templates>
							 <fo:basic-link 
                external-destination="url('www.google.com')"
               color="blue" text-decoration="underline">
                              klik hier om naar google te gaan
                   </fo:basic-link>
						</fo:block>
                            <fo:block>
                  <fo:external-graphic src="url('http://utopia.ision.nl/users/ptr/pfloyd/interview/boom.jpg')"
                         content-height="50%" content-width="50%"/>
                            </fo:block>       
                         </fo:block>
                       
					  	</fo:block>

						
                     </fo:table-cell>
				</fo:table-row>
			</fo:table-body>
		</fo:table>

I use the keep within same page trick to make sure they line well next under eachother, But i would like to post a table besides it before moving on to the next one without using external langauges.

With kind greetings,

Henk.

[minamo99]

Can anyone please give an XSL:FO solution? My FOP engine does not export to PDF if i use html