Get current group : current group « XSLT stylesheet « XML

1. XML
2. XSLT stylesheet
3. current group

Get current group

File: Data.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<towns>
  <town>A</town>
  <town>B</town>
  <town>C</town>
  <town>D</town>
  <town>E</town>
  <town>F</town>
  <town>G</town>
  <town>H</town>
  <town>I</town>
  <town>J</town>
  <town>K</town>
  <town>L</town>
</towns>



File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />

  <xsl:param name="cols" select="4" />

  <xsl:template match="towns">
    <table>
      <xsl:variable name="sorted-towns" as="element()*">
        <xsl:perform-sort select="town">
          <xsl:sort />
        </xsl:perform-sort>
      </xsl:variable>

      <xsl:for-each-group select="$sorted-towns"
        group-adjacent="(position()-1) idiv $cols">
        <tr>
          <xsl:for-each select="current-group()">
            <td>
              <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </td>
          </xsl:for-each>
        </tr>
      </xsl:for-each-group>
    </table>
  </xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<table>
   <tr>
      <td>A</td>
      <td>B</td>
      <td>C</td>
      <td>D</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>E</td>
      <td>F</td>
      <td>G</td>
      <td>H</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>I</td>
      <td>J</td>
      <td>K</td>
      <td>L</td>
   </tr>
</table>

 

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