Hi David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Frey [mailto:dpfrey@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, 24 September 2010 11:51 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Question about grouping
>
> I have an XSLT problem that I haven't been able to figure
> out.  The example below is essentially the simplest version
> of the problem I have encountered.
>
> Say you have a document like this:
>
> <doc>
>   <book title="aaa" author="jones"/>
>   <book title="bbb" author="smith"/>
>   <book title="ccc" author="douglas"/>
>   <book title="ddd" author="jones"/>
>   <book title="eee" author="jones"/>
>   <book title="fff" author="douglas"/>
>   <book title="ggg" author="smith"/>
> </doc>
>
>
> How can you produce a document like this?:
>
> <report>
>   <author name="jones">
> 	<title>aaa</title>
> 	<title>ddd</title>
> 	<title>eee</title>
>   </author>
>   <author name="smith">
> 	<title>bbb</title>
> 	<title>ggg</title>
>   </author>
>   <author name="douglas">
> 	<title>bbb</title>
> 	<title>fff</title>
>   </author>
> </report>
>
> Restrictions:
> - Only XSLT 1.0
> - You can't hard-code the names of the books or the authors
> in the XSLT.
>

This seems to work. Very quickly ripped off Jeni Tennison's example using the
Muenchian grouping method:
http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/muenchian.html. Add sorting like she
did if you need it.

Throw this within your transform:

	<xsl:key name="authorgroup" match="book" use="@author" />

	<xsl:template match="/doc">
		<report>
			<xsl:for-each select="book[count(.|key('authorgroup',@author)[1]) = 1]">
				<author name="{@author}">
					<xsl:for-each select="key('authorgroup',@author)">
						<title><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></title>
					</xsl:for-each>
				</author>
			</xsl:for-each>
		</report>
	</xsl:template>

Cheers

Hugh Barnes
Technical Interface Specialist
nehta - National E-Health Transition Authority
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