Re: looping, moving through elements??

From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re:  looping, moving through elements??
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:13:25 +0100

This is a fairly standard grouping problem, it would be easier in xslt2
but in xslt 1 you want to use keys as explained on Jeni's site.

In your case you want to group things based on the following ve with
three . in its pos attribute so your key is

<xsl:key name="x" match="ve"
use="(.|folowing-sibling::ve)
[string-length(@pos)=3+string-length(translate(@pos,'.',''))][1]/@pos"/>

then something like (untested)

<xsl:for-each
select="ve[string-length(@pos)=3+string-length(translate(@pos,'.',''))]">
<tr>
<xsl:for-each select="key('x',@pos)">
<td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
</xsl:for-each>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>

David

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