RE: Grouping using group-starting-with=

The value of group-starting-with is a pattern that must match a node in the
population. Since the population consists of Item elements, none of them
match the pattern RepresentationTerm[.='Code']. Use

group-starting-with="Item[RepresentationTerm='Code']"

A bit of a gotcha - only this morning I found someone doing select="para"
group-by="para/title". Oh for a context-free language!

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 September 2006 17:37
> To: XSL List
> Subject:  Grouping using group-starting-with=
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm using Saxon 8.8J and I'm trying to group a bunch of
> sibling items into groups of items that start with the item
> that has a particular child with a particular value.
>
> It would seem that the following does not work:
>
>      <xsl:for-each-group select="/*/Item"
>
> group-starting-with="RepresentationTerm[.='Code']">
>
> Looking at XSLT 2.0, group-starting-with= requires the
> population to all be nodes, and there are a number of nodes
> that match the pattern test supplied ... yet running the
> example I am only getting a single group ... which I suspect
> is just the first node in the population.
>
> I'm missing something obvious ... could someone please point
> me to the correct chapter and verse?
>
> I have my example below of test data and stylesheet ... my
> real data has much more information and more representation
> terms, but it should still be the same.
>
> Thanks!
>
> . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
>
> t:\ftemp>type test.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <Model file="UBL-qDT-2.0">
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Allowance Charge Reason_ Code.
> Type</DictionaryEntryName>
>        <RepresentationTerm>Code</RepresentationTerm>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Allowance Charge Reason_ Code.
> Content</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Allowance Charge Reason_ Code
> List. Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Allowance Charge Reason_
> Language. Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Channel_ Code. Type</DictionaryEntryName>
>        <RepresentationTerm>Code</RepresentationTerm>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Channel_ Code.
> Content</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Channel_ Code List.
> Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Channel_ Language.
> Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Chip_ Code. Type</DictionaryEntryName>
>        <RepresentationTerm>Code</RepresentationTerm>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Chip_ Code. Content</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Chip_ Code List.
> Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Chip_ Language.
> Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Country
> Identification_ Code. Type</DictionaryEntryName>
>        <RepresentationTerm>Code</RepresentationTerm>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Country
> Identification_ Code. Content</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Country
> Identification_ Code List. Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Country
> Identification_ Language. Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Currency_ Code. Type</DictionaryEntryName>
>        <RepresentationTerm>Code</RepresentationTerm>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Currency_ Code.
> Content</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Currency_ Code List.
> Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Currency_ Language.
> Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Document Status_ Code.
> Type</DictionaryEntryName>
>        <RepresentationTerm>Code</RepresentationTerm>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Document Status_ Code.
> Content</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Document Status_ Code List.
> Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>     <Item>
>        <DictionaryEntryName>Document Status_ Language.
> Identifier</DictionaryEntryName>
>     </Item>
>   </Model>
> t:\ftemp>type test.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                  version="2.0">
>
> <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>    <All>
>      <xsl:for-each-group select="/*/Item"
>
> group-starting-with="RepresentationTerm[.='Code']">
>        <Identification>
>          <xsl:value-of select="DictionaryEntryName"/>
>        </Identification>
>      </xsl:for-each-group>
>    </All>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> t:\ftemp>call xslt2 test.xml test.xsl test.out
>
> t:\ftemp>type test.out
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <All>
>     <Identification>Allowance Charge Reason_ Code.
> Type</Identification> </All>
>
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