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Virginia Older

Subject: New to XSL with Recursion/Count/Loop Need
Author: Virginia Older
Date: 25 Jun 2006 12:35 PM

I have an xml doc

<record ID="1">
<zone>1</zone>
<region>1</region>
</record>
<record ID="2">
<zone>1</zone>
<region>2</region>
</record>
<record ID="3">
<zone>2</zone>
<region>1</region>
</record>
<record ID="4">
<zone>3</zone>
<region>1</region>
</record>

I have half inherited this program to add "features". One of them was to insert a page break by zone grouping. I did this by:

<xsl:variable name="zone1">
<xsl:value-of select = "zone"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="zone2">
<xsl:value-of select = "following::zone"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:if test="$zone1 != $zone2 and position() != last()">

Probably not the best idea, but this is my first time (except for playing around) with xsl... so I am winging it...
The issue is, they want a "page of page" dispay above each page break as it prints. I have read about the recursive template thing but don't really understand the calling templates... etc. Am I making this more difficult than it is (if so, I will take my patronizing pat on the head now) or should I be perplexed?
I only was given a few hours to do this (which I have now passed) so any suggestions would be great. Please forgive my ignorance and accept my sincere appreciation for any help or direction!

Thank you so much,
Va.

Ivan Pedruzzi

Subject: New to XSL with Recursion/Count/Loop Need
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 26 Jun 2006 04:31 PM

Hi Virginia,

It's quite difficult to help you without see the code around the XSLT fragment.

Have a look o the attached solution for

- group the result by ZONE
- create a breaking element each n elements

Hope this helps
Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team

zone.xml

zone.xsl

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