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> My thinking has been that I'll write a for loop which will > identify all the distinct property_section_nm that I have, > and pass each of the distinct values in turn to a > call-template which can then group across the xml doc, and, > in a for loop of it's own, sort and then output the name=value pairs: > > <xsl:for-each > select="distinct-values(record/column[@name='property_section_nm'])"> > <xsl:variable name="name" select="."/> > <xsl:value-of select="$name"/> > <xsl:text> > </xsl:text> > <xsl:call-template name="fred"> > <xsl:with-param name="nm">$name</xsl:with-param> > </xsl:call-template> > distinct-values() returns a sequence of atomic values, so within this for-each, the context item is an atomic value. This context item is passed to the called template. > > <xsl:template name="fred"> > <xsl:param name="nm"/> > <xsl:for-each-group > select="/database/table[@name='tbl_nm']/record[column[@name='p > roperty_section_nm' > and .=$nm]]" group-by="."> > <xsl:sort select="column[@name='sort_order']" > data-type="number"/> > <xsl:value-of > select="concat(column[@name='property_nm'], '=', > column[@name='property_value'])"/> > <xsl:text> > </xsl:text> > </xsl:for-each-group> > </xsl:template> > > > but I'm getting an error message that my context item: > "/database/table[@name='tbl_nm']/record[column[@name='property > _section_nm' and .=$nm]]" isn't a node. Correct. It's an atomic value. A path expression starting with "/" starts by selecting the root of the document containing the context node, and if there is no context node, it won't work. You need to bind a variable to this document, probably a global variable will do: <xsl:variable name="root" select="/"/> and then you can do select="$root/database/table...." Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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