Hi David,

  Thank you for the suggestions.  It worked :)

  Have a great day.

Karthikeyan B
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:38 PM
Subject: Re:  XSL Grouping Trouble


>
> > how about grouping just based on chapter and section[79-31] and
> > not including 15
>
> Instead of grouping on PARA, group on
>
concat(substring-after(PARA,'-'),substring-before(substring-after(PARA,'-'),
'-'))
> (which would give the empty string for "=missing" which might or might
>  not be OK, depending what you want.
>
> or if they are all two digit, the simpler:
> substring(PARA,1,5)
>
> David
>
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