Re: grouping + global variable (?) (was re: regexs, g

Since the bibliography is only part of the document, and in a separate
namespace, I decided to create a virtual copy of the mods:modsCollection
element in the phase-1 mode, and then to apply-templates on that in the
default mode; like so:

<xsl:template match="mods:modsCollection">
  <xsl:variable name="temp">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="phase-1"/>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="$temp"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="mods:modsCollection">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates mode="phase-1"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

Okay, but why are both these templates matching the same elements with the
same priority, in no mode? They are in conflict and your processor will
only use one of them (or throw an error).

<xsl:template match="mods:mods" mode="phase-1">

I'm not familiar with the mods tagset, but if mods:mods is not a descendant
of mods:modsCollection, this template will never get matched.

  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="*|@*"/>
    <xsl:variable name="bibref" select="mods:mods" />
    <xsl:for-each-group select="$bibref" group-by="mods:grouping-key(.)">
      <xsl:sort select="current-grouping-key()"/>
      <xsl:for-each-group select="current-group()"

group-by="xs:integer(substring(mods:originInfo/mods:dateIssued,1,4))">
        <xsl:sort select="current-grouping-key()" />
        <xsl:variable name="year" as="xs:integer"
                select="current-grouping-key()"/>
        <xsl:variable name="first" as="xs:boolean" select="position() = 1"

        <xsl:for-each select="current-group()">
          <xsl:attribute name="id">
            <xsl:value-of select="@ID"/>
          </xsl:attribute>
          <key type="creator">
            <xsl:value-of select="$creator-before"/>
            <xsl:choose>
              <xsl:when test="$first and position()=1">
                <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="names"/>
                <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
              </xsl:when>
              <xsl:otherwise>.</xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
            <xsl:value-of select="$creator-after"/>
          </key>
          <key type="year">
            <xsl:value-of select="$year" />
            <xsl:if test="last() > 1">
              <xsl:number value="position()" format="a"/>
            </xsl:if>
          </key>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </xsl:for-each-group>
    </xsl:for-each-group>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

My problem is I can't access the generated year, which should be of the

<mods:key type="year">1999a</mods:key>.

I have a feeling this means something's gone wrong with this intermediate
step, as if I apply-templates to "mods:key" within the default mode of
mods:modsCollection, I get no output.  Everything but the year gets
rendered correctly.

Is there something obviously wrong with the above?  Maybe the way I've
generated the copy?  I thought it might be a namespace problem, but that's
not it.

Unless something I've said prompts you to discover the problem for
yourself, this is one of those problems where we have to see input and
desired output samples as well -- no way to debug the stylesheet on its
own, I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Wendell

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