Tables

How to use dynamic tables

Dynamic tables is useful to represent tables that differ in row number from document to document within the same merge. These are only possible with data formats that support nested entities, like XML or JSON.

Dynamic tables can are represented using the following notation fn:table xpath-expression.

fn:table must be used with a table in the document itself. See the following example:

This indicates that each column will fetch the data from the specific node by using the respective xpath expression.

For example the following data:

<items>    
    <item>
        <first_name>Jason</first_name>
        <last_name>Black</last_name>
        <pcns>
            <pcn>
                <pcn_number>8935049522</pcn_number>
                <date>03/07/2017 12:00:00</date>
                <location>Inverurie Retail Park  Oldmeldrum Road  Inverurie  Ab51 0gz</location>
                <reason>Maximum 3 Hours Free Parking  No Return Within 1 Hour</reason>
                <pcn_amount>100.00</pcn_amount>
                <fee>70.00</fee>
                <total>170.00</total>
            </pcn>
            <pcn>
                <pcn_number>1231349233</pcn_number>
                <date>11/02/2018 11:32:00</date>
                <location>Some other place  Oldmeldrum Road  Inverurie  Ab51 0gz</location>
                <reason>Maximum 3 Hours Free Parking  No Return Within 1 Hour</reason>
                <pcn_amount>200.00</pcn_amount>
                <fee>70.00</fee>
                <total>270.00</total>
            </pcn>
        </pcns>
    </item>
</items>

Would generate the following table: