Split the values as you have done. Now do a second phase of transformation.
The second phase is a standard grouping exercise - use Muenchian grouping on
the <tr> elements with substring(tr/td[1],1,1) as the grouping key.

Michael Kay  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perry.ielati@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:perry.ielati@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 17 June 2004 05:12
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Sorting a delimited attribute
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Newbie to the forum (and to XSL/T ) and i have a problem that 
> i'm hoping 
> someone can help me with.
> 
> I have an XML attribute that is seperated by commas(,) and 
> pipes(|). Here's a 
> small sample...
> 
> CC_DESCRIPTION="D686,Work,1|E004,English,2|E005,English,2|E012
> ,Media,1|E231,Busi
> ness Technology,1|E280,Applied Technology,1|E282,Technical 
> Graphics,1| etc etc "
> 
> What I need to do is create 2 HTML tables with each pipe(|) 
> seperated set of 
> values in a new row and each comma(,) seperated value in it's 
> own cell.
> 
> Ie..
> 
> <table>
>   <tr>
>     <td>D686 (code)</td>
>     <td>Work (title)</td>
>     <td>1 (points)</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td>E004 (code)</td>
>     <td>English (title)</td>
>     <td>2 (points)</td>
>   </tr>
> </table> etc etc
> 
> I've done this, however, all the values are in 1 table - what 
> I need to do is 
> now split the data - all codes starting with 'E' should be in 
> a seperate table 
> to those starting with 'E'.
> 
> I'm completely baffled. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> BTW, I have no control over the layout of the XML...only the XSL.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Perry
> 
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