hi!
A very strange structure if you don't mind me saying!
i know.. its not really clear yet if im able to change it though : /
If you assume that the description nodes are in the same order as the
equivalent column nodes
(which in your example is not the case!!) :
thats the point. the description nodes are just in the same order as
in the group nodes. since they relate together. the first child node in
a group node would be an apple for example, so the first child node
in the descriptions node, would have to be the description node for
the apple.
It is not obvious in your example how the description elements relate to the
column
elements other than the fact they have the same fruit...!?!
A far better structure might be:
<root>
..
<order>
<column name="orange" description="this is an orange"/>
<column name="apple" description="this is an apple"/>
</order>
..
</root>
that would be for sure the most simple solution. the problem is though
that the description nodes and the order nodes are in real-life coming
from two different xml documents. so i would have to kinda pack them
together with xslt first, which would make things also kinda akward. : /
ciao!
florian
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