Re: Recursive counting

Grrrrrrrr should have mentioned the <people> tree is actually a
variable, so the simplicity of using a prefs key is out the window....

One more edit ... no need for the current()
function ... that was left over from the variable version I posted.

. . . . . . . . Ken

T:\ftemp>type steve.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<data>
   <options>
     <o type="A">who</o>
     <o type="A">what</o>
     <o type="A">when</o>
     <o type="B">how</o>
     <o type="B">nexus</o>
     <o type="B">triumph</o>
     <o type="C">alligator</o>
     <o type="C">spurn</o>
   </options>
   <people>
     <person pref="who" />
     <person pref="nexus" />
     <person pref="how" />
     <person pref="alligator" />
     <person pref="spurn" />
     <person pref="triumph" />
     .... etc ....
   </people>
</data>

T:\ftemp>type steve.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                 version="1.0">

<xsl:output indent="yes"/>

<xsl:key name="options" match="o" use="@type"/>
<xsl:key name="prefs" match="person" use="@pref"/>

<xsl:template match="/data">
   <output>
     <xsl:for-each select="options/o[generate-id(.)=

       <xsl:sort select="@type"/>
       <out type="{@type}"

     </xsl:for-each>
   </output>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>xslt steve.xml steve.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<output>
    <out type="A" count="1"/>
    <out type="B" count="3"/>
    <out type="C" count="2"/>
</output>
T:\ftemp>

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