Subject: RE: Sorted headers of multiple occurance child nodes
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:11:21 +0100
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This looks like a standard grouping problem: use Muenchian grouping as per
http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Huntington [mailto:bhuntington@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 September 2005 15:20
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Sorted headers of multiple occurance child nodes
>
> Using Saxon 6.5.2 to process XSLT 1.1
>
> I would like to write sorted headers of /record/node values
> whose values
> may occur more than once in a document. I'm having a pretty
> tough go of
> conceptualizing how to accomplish this. I've checked the xsl-list
> archives, and other online resources, but I haven't found anything
> usefull. Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Here's dummy XML source, to demonstrate the challenge:
>
> <tableOfContents>
> <record>
> <author>Mr. Jones</author>
> <title>An article by Mr. Jones</title>
> <journalTitle>Journal of Oceanography</journalTitle>
> <subject>Oceanography</subject>
> </record>
> <record>
> <author>Ms. Smith</author>
> <title>An article by Ms. Smith</title>
> <journalTitle>Oceanic Reviews</journalTitle>
> <subject>Oceanography</subject>
> </record>
> <record>
> <author>Mr. Turner</author>
> <title>An article by Mr. Turner</title>
> <journalTitle>Journal of Volcanology</journalTitle>
> <subject>Volcanology</subject>
> </record>
> <record>
> <author>Dr. Love</author>
> <title>An article by Dr. Love</title>
> <journalTitle>Modern Psychology</journalTitle>
> <subject>Psychology</subject>
> </record>
> <record>
> <author>Ms. Walker</author>
> <title>An article by Ms. Walker</title>
> <journalTitle>Volcanos and Stuff</journalTitle>
> <subject>Volcanology</subject>
> </record>
> </tableOfContents>
>
> The objective is to produce the following output. Markup and
> whitespace
> are incidental, I'm concerned with outputting headers and
> sorting on the
> subject node value, where the value may occur multiple times in the
> input XML.
>
> <html>
> <h1>Table of Contents</h1>
> <h2>Oceanography</h2>
> <p>Mr. Jones, <b>An article by Mr. Jones</b>, <i>Journal of
> Oceanography</i></p>
> <p>Ms. Smith, <b>An article by Ms. Smith</b>, <i>Oceanic
> Reviews</i></p>
> <h2>Psychology</h2>
> <p>Dr. Love, <b>An article by Dr. Love</b>, <i>Modern
> Psychology</i></p>
> <h2>Volcanology</h2>
> <p>Mr. Turner, <b>An article by Mr. Turner</b>, <i>Journal of
> Volcanology</i></p>
> <p>Ms. Walker, <b>An article by Ms. Walker</b>, <i>Volcanos and
> Stuff</i></p>
> </html>
>
> Again, any help would be mucho appreciated.
> Brian Huntington
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