Re: [xsl] Muenchian method, and keys 'n stuff

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Dave,

Another way would be to hardcode your alphabet as a set of nodes in your 
stylesheet:

<my:alphabet xmlns:my="my.com">
   <l>a</l>
   <l>b</l>
   <l>c</l>
   <l>d</l>
   <!-- etc. -->
</my>

<xsl:variable name="alphabet" select="document('')/*/my:alphabet/l"/>

Then just iterate over these, or iterate over the nodes you already have 
with a test whether its initial letter (normalized) is = $alphabet.

It may be a little less cumbersome than recursion.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 08:51 AM 1/22/02, Jeni wrote:
>I'd just iterate over the alphabet held in a string, with a recursive
>template. It starts off with the whole alphabet and gradually whittles
>it down letter by letter until there's no alphabet left

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