creating a directory-like index

A
Alexander
Andrea

M
Martin
Max
Moritz
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<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:for-each select="artist[substring(name,1,1)]">
		<xsl:sort select="name"/>
		<div class="group">
			<h1><xsl:value-of select="substring(name,1,1)"/></h1>
			<xsl:call-template name="artistlist">
				<xsl:with-param name="letter" select="substring(name,1,1)"/>
			</xsl:call-template>		
		</div>
</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template name="artistlist">
		<xsl:param name="letter"/>
		<xsl:for-each select="artist[starts-with(name,$letter)]">
		<xsl:sort select="name"/>
			<div class="artist"><xsl:value-of select="name"/></div>
		</xsl:for-each>
	</xsl:template>

Thanks for your help,
Alexander

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