Nesting repeater within a table

[evgeniydParticipant]

Hi,
For the last few months I’ve been developing using Open-Xml-PowerTools (.Net) and I am very happy with the results.
There is one thing though that I don’t know how to do.
I am trying to nest a repeater inside a table cell and I can’t get it working.

This is my xml:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<root>
<activity>
<child>
<number>1</number>
<firstname>Lady</firstname>
<lastname>Gaga</lastname>
<reg_dates>
<reg_date>
<date>4/26/2016</date>
</reg_date>
<reg_date>
<date>4/28/2016</date>
</reg_date>
</reg_dates>
</child>
<child>
<number>2</number>
<firstname>Megan</firstname>
<lastname>Fox</lastname>
<reg_dates>
<reg_date>
<date>4/1/2016</date>
</reg_date>
</reg_dates>
</child>
</activity>
</root>

and inside my template.docx file I have

<#<Table Select=”./activity/child” />#>
(here is a simple two row table)

Inside one of the cells on the second row I have a repeater:
<#<Repeat Select=”./reg_dates/reg_date”/>#>
<#<Content Select=”./date”/>#>
<#<EndRepeat/>#>

I’d like to know, if the PowerTools can handle a template with nest repeater within a table and if yes, what is the proper way to do that.

Thanks

[Eric WhiteKeymaster]

This is not a feature of DocumentAssembler, unfortunately. It is a great idea though. I will add it to the list of suggested enhancements for DocumentAssembler.

What I suggest is that you transform your XML to another form where your repeating data is in an XML element in your data, and then refer to that element in your table.

Cheers, Eric

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