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Hey Syd, With apologies for lateness: maybe this is now "moot" in the American sense. But an idea. I would try this by writing a function: it could return a Boolean value, true() or false() depending on whether a node should be judged to be "sticky". f:sticky(.), in other words, would be true for any node that was either a B, or an A pointing to a B, or anything between. Is there a B anywhere, in other words, to which this node should stick? Or perhaps for stronger code, it would return not a Boolean, but the value of a relevant A/xml:id. Yup: this would be better, since it would also break out any adjacent B/A pair-groups from one another. So, f:sticks-to-id(). In complicated cases the function might have to perform a sibling recursion, although in your case it could perhaps simply inspect sibling nodes, finding any Bs with their As, then use >> or << comparison operators against those pairs. Given such a function, for-each-group/@group-adjacent should work. Plus, since the core logic is in the function, it's easier to test and repair for any edge cases. The code to detect any Bs that have wandered away from their As should not be too hard either, to help ensure coverage. Cheers, Wendell On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:47 AM Syd Bauman s.bauman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > To: Geert Bormans and David Carlisle > From: Syd > Re: complex grouping suggestions > > Gentlemen -- > > Thank you so much! As you might guess, it will take me awhile to work > through your suggestions, tweak to match the actual data, and test. > But I'm on it, and very appreciative. > -- ...Wendell Piez... ...wendell -at- nist -dot- gov... ...wendellpiez.com... ...pellucidliterature.org... ...pausepress.org... ...github.com/wendellpiez... ...gitlab.coko.foundation/wendell...
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