RE: Yet another grouping question

> From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re:  Yet another grouping question
> 
> 
> At 2003-01-08 08:17 -0700, Martinez, Brian wrote:
> >Now comes the grouping issue.  Cities served by multiple airports are
> >repeated in the table:
> >
> ><tr>
> >   <td>Buenos Aires</td>
> >   <td>Jorge Newbery</td>
> >   <td>AEP</td>
> ></tr>
> ><tr>
> >   <td>Buenos Aires</td>
> >   <td>Ministro Pistarini</td>
> >   <td>EZE</td>
> ></tr>
> >
> >Obviously I'd like both of these airports listed in one city 
> node for Buenos
> >Aires, but I can't figure out how to modify my stylesheet to 
> do this.  I
> >don't think I can use methods involving keys
> 
> Grouping isn't only accomplished through keys ... I often use 
> variables and 
> variables work across files.
> 
> I mocked up some data and the following seems to work fine in 
> a small test.
> 
> I hope this helps.

Thanks Ken--returning a node-set from the tables in all files instead of
iterating through each file seems to make more sense.  However, that does
present a secondary grouping problem--your stylesheet outputs a separate
country node for each city.  I think combining your approach with Niko's
suggestion of doing a second pass on the output (and using a key) will do
the trick.

thanks again,
b.

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