> Thanks for posting the replies.I got it.But another
> thing is that I've a huge database from which I'm
> pulling the data.As I applied the generateid
> function,it gives me the same catogories again and
> again.For eg,it gives me 
> ID
> ID
> ID
> ID 
> as many times as it's there.I want a particular
> category to be displayed only once in the beginning.

That's called a grouping problem, see how to solve it at
http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping

Michael Kay


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