Re: Creating a Place index

Thanks a lot for this advice.
It took me a while to understand it but now it works just fine.
I removed my sample files as they are no longer needed.

regards
Kaarle

> 
> It would have been easier if you'd included a small file with two
> tables, for testing but anyway having got used your"contacts-by-place"
> key to find the first occurrence of each place, you just want to get all
> the ancestor tables  of every place with the same name which is
> <xsl:for-each select="key('contacts-by-place',@name)/ancestor::table">
> ... table number <xsl:value-of select=E//>@number"
> 
> duplication removal is automatic as a the node-set
> key('contacts-by-place',@name)/ancestor::table
> can't have duplicates, as it is a set.
> 
> David
> 
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