Thanks heaps Ken, I was really thinking of it the incorrect way.
This taught me a lot. Thanks!

Andy.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:05 PM, G. Ken
Holman<gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 2009-07-31 13:14 +1000, Andy Kohn wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to do a simple grouping and then post the siblings but I'm
>> a little bit confused.
>>
>> I have the following XML:
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <Entries>
>>   <entry>
>>      <First>First Group</First>
>>      <Second>sample data I</Second>
>>   </entry>
>>   <entry>
>>       <First>Second Group</First>
>>      <Second>sample data II</Second>
>>   </entry>
>>    <entry>
>>        <First>First Group</First>
>>        <Second>sample data III</Second>
>>    </entry>
>> </Entries>
>>
>> I'm trying to group the data using the <First> tag and then show all
>> the <Second> tags data.
>> Example of the result:
>>
>> <Entries>
>>   <entryTransformation>
>>      <data>First Group</data>
>>      <secondaryData>sample data I</secondaryData>
>>      <secondaryData>sample data III</secondaryData>
>>   </entryTransformation>
>>   <entryTransformation>
>>      <data>Second Group</data>
>>      <secondaryData>sample data II</secondaryData>
>>   </entryTransformation>
>> </Entries>
>>
>>
>> I'm using
>> <xsl:for-each-group select="/Entries/entryTransformation/data"
>> group-by=".">
>> To make the grouping, but then I don't know how to iterate the
>> <Second> elements.
>
> You've got your perspective backwards by trying to address nodes in the
> result tree, when you must always address nodes in the source tree.
>
> I hope the example below helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
> t:\ftemp>type andy.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <Entries>
>   <entry>
>      <First>First Group</First>
>      <Second>sample data I</Second>
>   </entry>
>   <entry>
>       <First>Second Group</First>
>      <Second>sample data II</Second>
>   </entry>
>    <entry>
>        <First>First Group</First>
>        <Second>sample data III</Second>
>    </entry>
> </Entries>
>
> t:\ftemp>xslt2 andy.xml andy.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <Entries>
>   <entryTransformation>
>      <data>First Group</data>
>      <secondaryData>sample data I</secondaryData>
>      <secondaryData>sample data III</secondaryData>
>   </entryTransformation>
>   <entryTransformation>
>      <data>Second Group</data>
>      <secondaryData>sample data II</secondaryData>
>   </entryTransformation>
> </Entries>
> t:\ftemp>type andy.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                version="2.0">
>
> <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/Entries">
>  <Entries>
>    <xsl:for-each-group select="entry" group-by="First">
>      <entryTransformation>
>        <data><xsl:value-of select="First"/></data>
>        <xsl:for-each select="current-group()">
>          <secondaryData>
>            <xsl:value-of select="Second"/>
>          </secondaryData>
>        </xsl:for-each>
>      </entryTransformation>
>    </xsl:for-each-group>
>  </Entries>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> t:\ftemp>
>
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