>>>>> Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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 > This is much much easier in XSLT 2.0 using xsl:for-each-group.  In
 > this case, I'd consider and test @group-starting-with="a | aa".

	ACK, thanks!  I was pretty sure that Ibve seen an XSLT 2.0
	construct for just this kind of things, and indeed thatbs it!

 > All by itself this capability is sufficient reason to use XSLT 2.0
 > whenever possible.  I hope this option is available to you.

	Alas, I know of no XSLT 2.0 implementations which are /both/
	free software and non-Java.  (The problem with Java is that itbs
	just too much a burden to take for just a single software
	package that will ever use it.)

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