Re: Table of contents for all groups at the beginning

Sorry for not being specific enough. the output would be something like:

<h1>Company Name</h1>
<hr/>

link to Department 1 group | link to Department 2 group | link to Department 3 group

<p><a id="department1 name"></a></p>
<h2>Department 1</h2>
<p>Employee Information</p>
<p>Employee Information</p>
...
<hr/>

link to Department 1 group | link to Department 2 group | link to Department 3 group

<p><a id="department2 name"></a></p>
<h2>Department 2</h2>
<p>Employee Information</p>
<p>Employee Information</p>
...
<hr/>

link to Department 1 group | link to Department 2 group | link to Department 3 group

<p><a id="department3 name"></a></p>
<h2>Department 3</h2>
<p>Employee Information</p>
<p>Employee Information</p>
...
<hr/>

Thanks for responding and I hope this clarifies what I need to do.

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:50:30 -0500
 "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 2007-11-19 12:50 -0600, vwiswell@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>I've looked at a lot of examples but I still can't seem to figure out
>>how to do this. I am using XSLT 2.0. I am transforming XML to XHTML.
> 
> There are some fundamental problems in your stylesheet, plus your 
>question is not quite clear.
> 
>>The XML is something like this:
>>
>><corporation>
>>      <company>
>>          <employee>
>>              <department>a</department>
>>           </employee>
>>          <employee>
>>              <department>a</department>
>>           </employee>
>>           <employee>
>>              <department>a</department>
>>           </employee>
>>        </company>
>>      <company>
>>          <employee>
>>              <department>a</department>
>>           </employee>
>>         <employee>
>>              <department>a</department>
>>           </employee>
>>         <employee>
>>              <department>b</department>
>>           </employee>
>>           <employee>
>>              <department>c</department>
>>           </employee>
>>        </company>
>></corporation>
>>
>>
>>I need to group employees within a company (selected with a param) by
>>department. No problem. What I also need to do is include a table of
>>contents at the beginning of each department grouping linking to each
>>of the other department groups. If there is only one department in 
>>the
>>company, I do not display a table of contents.
> 
> I'm lost as to which groupings you need and which you do not.  Could 
>you please show an example of what you want output from the data 
>above, rather than showing us the stylesheet.  That shows us what 
>doesn't work, not what you want.
> 
>><xsl:for-each-group select="//company" group-by="department/text()">
>>    <xsl:sort select="department/text()"/>
> 
> It is dangerous to use "/text()" in the above because of mixed 
>content.  It is sufficient to say "department" because the text value 
>of an element is the concatenation of the descendant text nodes.
> 
>>    <br/>
>>    <p><a id="&lt;xsl:value-of
>>select='current-grouping-key()'/&gt;"></a></p>
> 
> Your escaping of angle brackets in an attribute achieves nothing. 
> There is no such thing as element markup in an attribute string. 
> Use an attribute value template to do "value-of" in an attribute:
> 
>    <a id="{current-grouping-key()}">
> 
>>I think my problem is that I don't thoroughly understand how the XML
>>doc is processed so that I can get the group names at the beginning 
>>of
>>the the for-each-group.
> 
> What do you mean by a "group name"?  If you mean the current 
>grouping key, then perhaps the above is all you need.
> 
> Remember also that you always get a group even if the count of 
>members of the group is one.  If you don't want to do something if 
>there is only one member of the group, then you'll have to check the 
>count of the current group to determine that.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> . . . . . . . . . Ken
> 
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