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Hi Manuel, This is called a grouping problem. Take a look at: http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/index.html and http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N4486.html Cheers, Agnes > > Van: "Manuel Reyes" <Manuel.Reyes@xxxxxxxxx> > Aan: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Datum: wo 10 dec 03, 12:57 > Onderwerp: Using Foreach with Attribute values > > I am attempting to merge an XSL and XML file to generate a PDF, and I > have encountered a problem that I can't find a solution to. > > The XML file that I am working with has the following format: > > <data> > <products> > <product category="Cat 1"> > <value1>valA</value1> > <value2>valB</value2> > </product> > <product category="Cat 2"> > <value1>valC</value1> > <value2>valD</value2> > </product> > <product category="Cat 3"> > <value1>valE</value1> > <value2>valF</value2> > </product> > <product category="Cat 2"> > <value1>valG</value1> > <value2>valH</value2> > </product> > </products> > </data> > > As you can see there are 2 products of type "Cat 2", now what I am > attempting to achieve is to create a PDF (using Apache FOP) with 3 > tables (one for each category) and within each table put the values that > have that category. So something like this: > > Cat 1 > valA valB > > Cat 2 > valC valD > valG valH > > Cat 3 > valE valF > > I have managed to do simple foreach, but I can't seem to find a way of > doing this using the "category" attribute to group items. > > One thing that could be an issue here, is that I don't have any control > of the "category" attribute value, so it isn't possible to hardcode the > XSL file to pull out specific values by attribute value. In other words > this needs to be 100% dynamic, as on 1 run the XML may have 2 categories > and 6 products, on another it may have 40 categories and 500 products. > > Regards > Manuel Reyes > > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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