Re: grouping by the first char

> I've seen the Muenchian grouping, but I don't know if that exactly
> applies to this. Its just a simple one-pass to produce the doc.

 Yes, it applies.

See for example:

     http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?p=3&id=v20010129150851


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev



On 4/16/05, stuart arnold <stuart.arnold@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is very fundamental but i'm not having much luck in finding out the
> answer.
> I need to be able to sort, then group based on the 1st character of the
> element.
> example:
> <things>
> <thing>bbb<thing>
> <thing>aaa<thing>
> <thing>abc<thing>
> <thing>aab<thing>
> <thing>bad<thing>
> <thing>baa<thing>
> <thing>cca<thing>
> <thing>zzz<thing>
> </things>
> and produce some html so that a <br> occurs when the 1st char changes.
> It should "start" with the default being "a" for grouping, and then
> detect that the 1st char change and insert the <br>
> I've seen the Muenchian grouping, but I don't know if that exactly
> applies to this. Its just a simple one-pass to produce the doc.
> thanks
> -stuart