Printing across not down...

Question

Hello,
I have a requirement where I need to print 3 reports (same type of report) on one page across and not down...
example
~~~~~
page 1
1234          |1233     |1211     |
customer1     |customer2     |customer3     |
ADDRESS1     |ADDRESS2|ADDRESS3|
page 2
7777          |1212     |
customer4     |customer5     |
ADDRESS4     |ADDRESS5|
sample xml
~~~~~~~
<LIST_G_HEADER>
<G_HEADER>
<NUM>1234</NUM>
<CUSTOMER>customer1</CUSTOMER>
<ADDRESS>ADDRESS1</ADDRESS>
</G_HEADER>
<G_HEADER>
<NUM>1233</NUM>
<CUSTOMER>customer2</CUSTOMER>
<ADDRESS>ADDRESS2</ADDRESS>
</G_HEADER>
<G_HEADER>
<NUM>1211</NUM>
<CUSTOMER>customer3</CUSTOMER>
<ADDRESS>ADDRESS3</ADDRESS>
</G_HEADER>
<G_HEADER>
<NUM>7777</NUM>
<CUSTOMER>customer4</CUSTOMER>
<ADDRESS>ADDRESS4</ADDRESS>
</G_HEADER>
<G_HEADER>
<NUM>1212</NUM>
<CUSTOMER>customer5</CUSTOMER>
<ADDRESS>ADDRESS5</ADDRESS>
</G_HEADER>
</LIST_G_HEADER>
Thanks
SGUPTA

Answer 1

Take a look at this blog post: https://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/entry/across_not_down
Use the following:
In your case, create a one column three row table and have the following code:
Row 1: <?for-each@cell:G_HEADER?><?NUM?><?end for-each?>
Row 2: <?for-each@cell:G_HEADER?><?CUSTOMER?><?end for-each?>
Row 3: <?for-each@cell:G_HEADER?><?ADDRESS?><?end for-each?>
If you need the first three rows in the first table and then each table to hold 3 rows,you will need to use the following code to accomplish that:
<?for-each@cell:G_HEADER[position()<4]?> -- use this for each row
insert page break and then create another table to use the following code (assuming you want to include 3 rows of data in each table) <?for-each@cell:G_HEADER[position()>3 and position() <7]?>
This approach requires that you know the count of rows and design the template based on the count.
Thanks,
Bipuser