Xslt defining the third object from current

[ismailc]

Hi, I don't know xml.
The stylesheet identifies all the objects from DB & as it reads through the DB, it checks the next object "for-each", I need to check the third object as well & define within var being "nextNode3"

I need to specify in the stylesheet to look for the next column – so that I can insert the xml.
This is the code that checks/defines for current & next, with the next being "nextNode"

      <xsl:for-each select="Activity/ObjectGroup[@type='default']/Object">    
      <xsl:sort select="@index" data-type="number" /> 
      <xsl:variable name="index" select="@index" />
      <xsl:variable name="nextNode" select="../Object[ @index > $index ][1]" />
      <xsl:variable name="nextCol" select="$nextNode/@columnNo" /> 
      <xsl:variable name="vis" select="string(Attributes/Attribute[ @name='visible'])" />
      <xsl:variable name="visNextCol" select="string($nextNode/Attributes/Attribute[ @name='visible'])" />

nextNode specifies the next object & nextCol specifies the next objects column
Now I just need to specify the 3rd object
This is what i tried - unsuccessful

    <xsl:variable name="nextNode3" select="../Object[ @index > $index ][2]" /> 
    <xsl:variable name="nextCol3" select="$nextNode3/@columnNo" />
    <xsl:variable name="visNextCol3" select="string($nextNode3/Attributes/Attribute[ @name='visible'])" />

Please Assist, Not too sure

Regards

[jkmyoung]

Could you post a sample of your source xml? It's hard to see why it's not working, eg your code looks correct from what I can see.

[ismailc]

Hi, Thank You for the assist

I'm only editing an existing xslt file and have no experience in xml.
The current file allows for 2 objects to be next to one another on one row when object2 column no = 2. I want to add a third object to the row when column no = 3, but i can't determine the 3rd object, on one row = object1, object2, object3

This is the code of the original xslt file, code in bold is what I added.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" xmlns:asp="remove" xmlns:igchart="remove" xmlns:igsch="remove" xmlns:igtxt="remove">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration = "yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="Activity/ObjectGroup[@type='default']/Object"> 
<xsl:sort select="@index" data-type="number" /> 
<xsl:variable name="index" select="@index" />
<xsl:variable name="nextNode" select="../Object[ @index > $index ][1]" />
<xsl:variable name="nextCol" select="$nextNode/@columnNo" />

[B]<xsl:variable name="nextNode3" select="../Object[ @index > $index ][3]" />
<xsl:variable name="nextCol3" select="$nextNode3/@columnNo" />
<xsl:variable name="visNextCol3" select="string($nextNode3/Attributes/Attribute[ @name='visible'])" />[/B]

<xsl:variable name="vis" select="string(Attributes/Attribute[ @name='visible'])" />
<xsl:variable name="visNextCol" select="string($nextNode/Attributes/Attribute[ @name='visible'])" />

<xsl:if test="($vis != 'False') or ($nextCol = '2' and ($vis != 'False' or $visNextCol != 'False')) [B]or ($nextCol3 = '3')">[/B]

<xsl:if test="(@columnNo != '2')">
  <tr>
       <xsl:if test="($nextCol = '2') and $visNextCol != 'False'">
          <tr>
       </xsl:if>
[B]      <xsl:if test="($nextCol3 = '3') and $visNextCol3 != 'False'">
         <tr>
       </xsl:if>[/B]

</xsl:if>
</xsl:if>

It gives me an error, the third object is already used by another control

Please help, Regards