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Apologies if this is a stupidly easy question, but I haven't done a lot with this particular aspect of XSL, so please be kind! I'm writing a simple style sheet for DocBook and I need to be able to sort the index tags twice, once by the first term and once by the second term, so that main headings and subheadings come out in the correct order. Not everything has a subheading. If a main heading or subheading occurs twice, I need it to output only once followed by IDs for all the occurrences. Right now I'm doing the first sort and outputting a document, then processing that second document to do the second sort. I need to do it all in one pass. I'm sure it's possible, I just don't know how to get started. For those not familiar with DocBook, the tags look like this (ignore the periods, they're there so that my email doesn't strip out the line breaks): <indexterm id="{ID}">. <primary>bears</primary>. <secondary>feeding</secondary>. </indexterm>. <indexterm id="{ID}">. <primary>bears</primary>. <secondary>breeding</secondary>. </indexterm>. <indexterm id="{ID}">. <primary>bears</primary>. <secondary>hunting</secondary>. </indexterm>. <indexterm id="{ID}">. <primary>aardvarks</primary>. </indexterm>. <indexterm id="{ID}">. <primary>bears</primary>. <secondary>hunting</secondary>. </indexterm>. The output from the above should be as follows (I'm wrapping it in HTML list tags but have omitted them here for clarity -- I assume if I can get the sort working I can wrap the output without much effort): Aardvarks, {ID}. Bears. breeding, {ID}. feeding, {ID}. hunting, {ID}, {ID}. Is there an easy way to do this? Or is there a stylesheet out there that already does this and I can just copy it into mine? I've already looked at the official docbook to html style sheet but the indexterm processing is spread across a ton of little module files and I can't follow the logic at all. I just want something really simple. Thanks -- Michele
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