If you have more question about grouping,
you can find good answers at this site :
http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/index.html

It was useful to me, I hope Jeni Tennison's website will useful to you too.
Regards,
Nicolas Fédou

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Andrew Welch [mailto:AWelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Envoyé : jeudi 7 août 2003 15:47
> À : xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet : RE:  creating a directory-like index
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > I wnat to create a directory like index from a list of names. I want
> to
> > have section heading for each existing first-letter, followed by all
> > names starting with that first letter, omitting 
> non-existant letters.
> > 
> > Like this:
> > 
> > A
> > Alexander
> > Andrea
> > 
> > M
> > Martin
> > Max
> > Moritz
> 
> I can see what you were trying to do... what you need to do is use the
> Muenchian method of grouping - you find the first occurance of each
> group, then apply-templates to its following-siblings (within the
> group).
> 
> This should be what you need:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
> <xsl:key name="group-by-initial" match="name" use="substring(.,1,1)"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="root">
>   <div>
>     <xsl:for-each select="name[generate-id(.) =
> generate-id(key('group-by-initial',substring(.,1,1))[1])]">
>       <div 
> style="margin-top:1em;text-transform:uppercase"><xsl:value-of
> select="substring(.,1,1)"/></div>
>       <xsl:apply-templates
> select=".|following-sibling::name[starts-with(.,substring(curr
> ent(),1,1)
> )]">
>         <xsl:sort select="."/>
>       </xsl:apply-templates>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </div>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="name">
>   <div><xsl:apply-templates/></div>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> cheers
> andrew
> 
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