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> > 1. Is it possible to compare two strings lexicographically in > XSL/XPATH? I believe the answer is no. Is there a way I can > achieve this? Not directly (in XSLT 1.0), but you can do it with the node-set extension. Write the two strings as nodes in a tree, sort the nodes, and see which one comes first in the result. > > > 2. I have listed the XML & XSL below. In that the community > name attribute > could start with a alphabet, a number or any other character. > Most of the > community names are expected to start with alphabets. In my > output, if I have one or more community name starting with a > certain alphabet (i.e. 'A') then I want to put a link (aka > advance orgranizer) at the top of the page that would say 'A' > and likewise for all the alphabets. Also since I have few > communities starting with non-alphabets, I would want to put > a link called Miscellaneous that would link to a page which > would display all non-alphabetic characters. This is a kind of grouping problem: you want to form groups of items that start with the same letter. Use Muenchian grouping, with a key defined as <xsl:key name="g" match="name" use="substring(.,1,1)"/> Read about Muenchian grouping at http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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