changing report .xsl

[Shelagh Manton]

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On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:31:01 -0700
Robby Stephenson <robby at periapsis.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 3:07, Shelagh Manton wrote:
> > I want to print out a report which has the title and author with a
> > third column with the ISBN. I tried to understand what is happening
> > in the xsl files and trying to work out what goes where but I'm
> > completely lost. I thought I ought to base it on Column_View.xsl
> > but it needs a third column. And I can't work out how the script
> > knows which field to use in the report.
> 
> The Column View report will show the columns in the current main
> window view, and those columns get passed to the XSL transform
> through an xsl:param element, which is line 39, or close to it. Those
> columns are just a list of field names, separated by a space. Then
> the stylesheet creates a local variable with the fields by splitting
> them up.
> 
> So you need to over-ride the xsl:param. Best way to do it would be to
> delete line 39, and replace $column-names in the next line by 'title
> author isbn'
> 
> In short,
> <xsl:param name="column-names" select="'title'"/>
> <xsl:variable name="columns" select="str:tokenize($column-names)"/>
> 
> becomes
> <xsl:variable name="columns" select="str:tokenize( 'title author
> isbn')"/>
> 
Thanks that did the trick! 

And if you could design a report wizard such as was mentioned, that also
would be lovely. 

Says Shelagh,
( who will be spending some time sorting out her many
incorrectly catalogued books! )
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