Re: Grouping adjacent elements by value - within a ran

You might get someone to do this for you - but to me its less of a
question and more of a high level requirement for some quotable
work...

cheers
andrew

On 13 August 2010 10:35, Kevin Bird <kevin.bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hello
>
> I typeset price tables for Tour Operators brochures. Due to design changes,
the space left to display price information has been reduced. I need to group
adjacent <price> elements that are within a certain range (the range would be
passed as a parameter). Once the price groupings are worked out, I then need
to modify the corresponding <period> elements.
>
> The example below shows adjacent price elements grouped that are within a
range of #20 (with the lowest price returned). Using the same groupings, the
<period> elements are modified by taking the first <startdate> and last
<enddate>.
>
> I can use XSLT 2.0.
>
>
> =========================
> SOURCE XML
> =========================
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <grid>
>        <row id="periods">
>                <period>
>                        <startdate>01-Sep-2010</startdate>
>                        <enddate>19-Sep-2010</enddate>
>                </period>
>                <period>
>                        <startdate>20-Sep-2010</startdate>
>                        <enddate>25-Sep-2010</enddate>
>                </period>
>                <period>
>                        <startdate>26-Sep-2010</startdate>
>                        <enddate>30-Sep-2010</enddate>
>                </period>
>                <period>
>                        <startdate>01-Oct-2010</startdate>
>                        <enddate>11-Oct-2010</enddate>
>                </period>
>                <period>
>                        <startdate>12-Oct-2010</startdate>
>                        <enddate>31-Oct-2010</enddate>
>                </period>
>        </row>
>        <row id="prices">
>                <price>1209</price>
>                <price>1109</price>
>                <price>1129</price>
>                <price>1359</price>
>                <price>1369</price>
>        </row>
> </grid>
>
>
> =========================
> RESULT XML
> =========================
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <grid>
>        <row id="periods">
>                <period>
>                        <startdate>01-Sep-2010</startdate>
>                        <enddate>19-Sep-2010</enddate>
>                </period>
>                <period>
>                        <startdate>20-Sep-2010</startdate>
>                        <enddate>30-Sep-2010</enddate>
>                </period>
>                <period>
>                        <startdate>01-Oct-2010</startdate>
>                        <enddate>31-Oct-2010</enddate>
>                </period>
>        </row>
>        <row id="prices">
>                <price>1209</price>
>                <price>1109</price>
>                <price>1359</price>
>        </row>
> </grid>
>
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Kevin
>
>



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