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RE: xslt 2 grouping
- From: DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:15:17 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] xslt 2 grouping
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> ><p>
> ><el att='a'>x</el>
> ><el att='b'>x</el>
> ><el att='c'>x</el>
> ><el att='d'>y</el>
> ></p>
> >I have about 1200 lines of this, so keys are out.
>
> Why discount keys?
Because I have so many variants on (above) x, y.
ditto on the att values, so I would have to define about 200 unique
keys.
>
> >I want to find all the el elements with content 'a'
> >which have *different* att attribute values,
> >
> >to produce
> >
> ><el name='x'>a b c </el>
>
> Below is a solution that doesn't use keys. I've added this
> technique to
> the Sorting/Grouping section of my XSLT training and the
> students have
> found it useful.
>
> >I.e. list x, together with all the attributes att
> >which are different.
> >
> >I'm guessing its a good one for xslt 2, for-each and group-by,
> >but I'm stumped on the syntax.
>
> Are you required to use XSLT-2?
No, but it looks like the xslt 2 group-by would be along the right lines,
a solution based roughly along the lines of what you have below
is still running 15 minutes later.
<xsl:template match='el'>
<xsl:variable name='f' select='@att'/>
<xsl:variable name='p' select='.'/>
<row><entry><xsl:value-of select='.'/></entry>
<entry>
<xsl:value-of select='@f'/>,
<xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::p[. = $p]">
<xsl:if test='not(@f=$f)'>
<xsl:value-of select='@f'/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test='not(position()=last())'>, </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</entry>
</row>
</xsl:template>
Though I hadn't used the generate-id test for uniqueness Ken,
that would be a more efficient solution, I'll try it.
thanks DaveP.
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