Hi Manuel,
This is called a grouping problem. Take a look at: http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/index.html and
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N4486.html

Cheers,
Agnes

> 
> Van: "Manuel Reyes" <Manuel.Reyes@xxxxxxxxx>
> Aan: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Datum: wo 10 dec 03, 12:57
> Onderwerp:  Using Foreach with Attribute values
> 
> I am attempting to merge an XSL and XML file to generate a PDF, and I
> have encountered a problem that I can't find a solution to.
> 
> The XML file that I am working with has the following format:
> 
> <data>
>   <products>
>     <product category="Cat 1">
>       <value1>valA</value1>
>       <value2>valB</value2>
>     </product>
>     <product category="Cat 2">
>       <value1>valC</value1>
>       <value2>valD</value2>
>     </product>
>     <product category="Cat 3">
>       <value1>valE</value1>
>       <value2>valF</value2>
>     </product>
>     <product category="Cat 2">
>       <value1>valG</value1>
>       <value2>valH</value2>
>     </product>
>   </products>
> </data>
> 
> As you can see there are 2 products of type "Cat 2", now what I am
> attempting to achieve is to create a PDF (using Apache FOP) with 3
> tables (one for each category) and within each table put the values that
> have that category.  So something like this:
> 
> Cat 1
> valA valB
> 
> Cat 2
> valC valD
> valG valH
> 
> Cat 3
> valE valF
> 
> I have managed to do simple foreach, but I can't seem to find a way of
> doing this using the "category" attribute to group items.
> 
> One thing that could be an issue here, is that I don't have any control
> of the "category" attribute value, so it isn't possible to hardcode the
> XSL file to pull out specific values by attribute value.  In other words
> this needs to be 100% dynamic, as on 1 run the XML may have 2 categories
> and 6 products, on another it may have 40 categories and 500 products.
> 
> Regards
> Manuel Reyes
> 
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