Re: for-each-group group-by

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Subject: Re: for-each-group group-by
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:07:37 -0400

At 2012-04-04 21:03 +0000, Craig Sampson wrote:

I am creating an index of paper titles using xsl:for-each-group to select and group by the titles of the papers alphabetically using the first character of the title.

Eg: <xsl:for-each-group select="//section" group-by="upper-case(substring(normalize-space(paperTitle),1,1))"> <xsl:sort select="current-grouping-key()"/> . . .

Some of the paper titles start with double left hand quotes. Others start with a numeral. In those cases I want the group-by to use the first alpha character in the title string. I could do this if regular expressions were allowed in the group-by attribute, but they're not.

Actually, the replace() function is allowed in the group-by= attribute and you can use regular expressions in that function.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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