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Steve 472 posts 1216 karma points

Jan 20, 2015 @ 22:10

I am trying to write some XSLT to format the xml results in my forms that are emailed to include fieldsets in the table of data sent. I don't know if I am doing the Xpath test in the "if" correctly. Here is what I have:

<xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::*./@fieldsetindex != ./@fieldsetindex">

                                  <td valign="top" style="border:1px solid black;padding:5px;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;background-color:#ccc;">
                                   </td>     
                             </xsl:if>

                                    <td valign="top" style="border:1px solid black;padding:5px;font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;">
                                          <strong>
                                                <xsl:value-of select="./caption" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                                          </strong>
                                    </td>

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Chriztian Steinmeier 2800 posts 8790 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jan 20, 2015 @ 22:15
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Hi Steve,

In this instance you need to use the current() function:
```
<xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*[@fieldsetindex = current()/@fieldsetindex])">
   ...
</xsl:if>
```
(If I understand what you're trying to do :-)

/Chriztian
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Steve 472 posts 1216 karma points

Jan 20, 2015 @ 22:18

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Sorry, I forgot to mention that aparently there is no way to retreve the actual fieldset text, so I am just created a blank "<td>" to separate the various fieldsets.

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Chriztian Steinmeier 2800 posts 8790 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jan 20, 2015 @ 22:32

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I just created a Gist with a file I've created for this purpose - maybe you can use that as inspiration:

It doesn't cover all the field types but at least it's a head start...

/Chriztian

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Steve 472 posts 1216 karma points

Jan 20, 2015 @ 22:34

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Thanks!

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Steve 472 posts 1216 karma points

Jan 20, 2015 @ 22:43

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Well, I ended up getting it to make an empty "<td>" where the form fields were by looking for the attribute of fieldsetindex, since there was no value for fieldset. Which is crazy, just saying.

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