Re: Problem with Muenchian grouping

I'm interested in the children of <data> that have an <action> child: I
would like to group them by name and perform some processing on them.
The problem is I cannot know those names (that is, each element is
optional), and the number of elements of each category is undefined.
So I don't know how to define the <xsl:key> element that I need.
I have tried <xsl:key name="records-by-name" match="/*/*[action]"
use="name()"> but that doesn't seem to work.

Nor can I identify the elements appearing first in their "group":
my_element_name[generate-id(.) = generate-id(key('records-by-name',
name())[1])] because precisely I don't know what to put instead of
"my_element_name".

 I think there is a problem in the way I want to reach
the name (the tag name) of those /*/*[action] nodes. But when I replace
'name()' by 'self::name()' it raises an error (isn't 'self' a correct
axis?).

Cheers,
Wendell

In fact I have mostly tried to adapt the example given by Dr Jenni
Tennison in the "Cocoon, sql and xslt" thread, but in my case, the
grouping is done depending on the names of the elements I want to group,
not on their children's values.

I hope my question is clear.

Thanks in advance,

Jean


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