Hi, I have an xml resultset which has to be converted using XSL for display into an excel spreadsheet in a vb.net application. The xml resultset has 15 columns (15 properties of client like firstname,lastname,address etc) and I don't want to hardcode the select attribute of xsl/xpath with property or xml element names. I need an XSL that can turn the xsl to rows and column without knowing the column names or any hardcoding. Making the headers bold is preferred I tried doing it and reached to somepoint but far away from the final result. Please help in accomplishing this
Here's the input XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ClientArray>
<Client>
<LastName>Bill</LastName>
<FirstName>Gates</FirstName>
<MiddleName/>
<Suffix/>
<DateOfBirth>30-May-1968</DateOfBirth>
<PlaceOfBirth/>
<SSN>n/a</SSN>
<Gender>Male</Gender>
<City>SHELTON</City>
<State>WA</State>
<Zip>96484</Zip>
</Client>
<Client>
<LastName>Warron</LastName>
<FirstName>Buffet</FirstName>
<MiddleName>P</MiddleName>
<Suffix/>
<DateOfBirth>12-Aug-1957</DateOfBirth>
<PlaceOfBirth>Mississippi</PlaceOfBirth>
<SSN>n/a</SSN>
<Gender>Male</Gender>
<City>Missi</City>
<State>KS</State>
<Zip>66096</Zip>
</Client>
<Client>
<LastName>Steev</LastName>
<FirstName>Jobbs</FirstName>
<MiddleName/>
<Suffix/>
<DateOfBirth>19-Apr-1959</DateOfBirth>
<PlaceOfBirth>Cupertino</PlaceOfBirth>
<SSN>n/a</SSN>
<Gender>Male</Gender>
<City>Cupertino</City>
<State>CA</State>
<Zip>96066</Zip>
</Client>
</ClientArray>
this is the code I have
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE type="text/css"> TABLE{table-layout: automatic; width:100%} .tblHeader{background-color:RGB(192,192,192);font-weight:bold} .row1{background-color:RGB(204,204,255)} .row2{background-color:RGB(153,204,255)} </STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE border="1">
<!-- Global variable to get column count -->
<xsl:variable name="columns" select="number(/list/@columns)"/>
<THEAD>
<TR class="tblHeader">
<xsl:for-each select="ClientArray/Client">
<TD>name()</TD> <!-- {Getting the xml column header here} -->
</xsl:for-each>
</TR>
</THEAD>
<TBODY>
<xsl:for-each select="ClientArray/Client">
<TR>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = 1">
<xsl:attribute name="class">row1</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:attribute name="class">row2</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:for-each select=".">
<TD>
<xsl:value-of select="./*[count(child::*) = 0]"/>
</TD>
</xsl:for-each>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
My desired output is
LastName FirstName MiddleName Suffix etc.....
Bill Gates
Buffet Warren
etc etc
Basically the XML has to be converted to a plain table that could be exported to EXCEL. They key is I don't want any hardcoding on "select" xpath attribute so that if I add more input fields XSL works without a problem. the xsl should loop for all columns without knowing column names