RE: XSL Newbie seeks help

Your problem is known as "grouping" and there is a vast literature on the
subject.

XSLT 2.0 has an instruction xsl:for-each-group to handle the problem, and
the techniques you can use in XSLT 1.0 are explained at
http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 08 February 2005 13:15
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> Subject:  XSL Newbie seeks help
> 
> HI,
> I searched the archives and must admit I am not sure if
> I found what I needed, as a lot of what I see is all
> new to me.
> 
> I am successfully applying a very basic XSL sheet to an
> XML document using <xsl:template match="Field"> against
> an XML document which has multiple "Field" nodes but
> with different names, like this:
> 
> <Field FieldName="DOCID">abc1223</Field>
> <Field FieldName="COUNTRY">USA</Field>
> <Field FieldName="COUNTRY">Canada</Field>
> 
> This works great, but as you may have noticed, some
> fields have the same FieldName attribute, and sometimes
> there can be a dozen countries, and this make my
> transformed document (HTML table) much longer as it
> creates a row for each COUNTRY entry.
> 
> How would I evaluate that there is more than one
> occurance of the Field/FieldName combination so that I
> can create a concatenated list of contries so as to
> display them all on only one row?
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Jim