Recipe showing how to restructure a table or set of tables

Sample Table

Title	Author
Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations	Sayce, Archibald Henry
Early Kings of Norway	Carlyle, Thomas
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis	Cooke, George Willis
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis	Curtis, George William
The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White)	Rutherford, Mark
Early Plays Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans	Ibsen, Henrik
Early Plays Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans	Orbeck, Anders
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson	Collins, John Churton
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson	Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Audio Book	Wharton, Edith
The Parenticide Club	Bierce, Ambrose
The Parent's Assistant	Edgeworth, Maria
Paris as It Was and as It Is	Blagdon, Francis W.
The Parish Clerk (1907)	Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Parish Papers	Macleod, Norman
The Parish Register	Crabbe, George

Annotated XSLT

%XSLTSTART{id="%WEB%" benchmark="off" debug="off" }% 
 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

 <xsl:template match="/twiki">
 <xsl:for-each select="/twiki/web/topic/data/tables/table/row[position()=1]/field[@type='title' and position()=1 and text()='Title']">

Foreach table with the first field in the first row being a header with the text 'Title'

     <xsl:for-each select="../following-sibling::*">

Foreach row following the first one

         <table border="1">
         <tr><th>Key</th><th>Value</th></tr>
         <xsl:for-each select="field">

Foreach field tag within this row

             <xsl:variable name="current-position" select="position()"/>   

Note the position of the current field

             <tr>
                <td><xsl:value-of select="../../row[position()=1]/field[position()=$current-position]"/></td>

Extract the title of this field going to the first row then the field with the same position as the current field

                <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
             </tr>
         </xsl:for-each>
     </table>
     </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:for-each>

  </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>
%XSLTEND%

XSLT Demo: Table Restructured using XSLT

XmlQuery must be Installed for this demo to work. If %XSLTSTART{}% tag appears XmlQueryPugin is not installed %XSLTSTART{id="System" benchmark="off" debug="off" }% <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

Key	Value

%XSLTEND%