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RE: xslt 2. index-of, nodes

2003-07-04 02:53:03
Thanks Jeni.


Compare this with what you have in your stylesheet:

  <xsl:for-each-group select="rec[mu/loc]"

I need to process only rec elements with mu/loc children,
hence the match on rec?
But point taken. I guess I could mod the XML, but its working now.

[Its not a bug Mike :-)]

So in your stylesheet, you're grouping the <rec> elements rather than
the <loc> elements. It shouldn't be surprising that since there's only
one <rec> element in your XML (from the looks of it), you only get one
group!

duh! (again :-)


Try the following instead:

  <xsl:for-each-group select="rec/mu/loc"
                      group-by="concat(@hl, '+', @side, '+', @loc)">
    ...
  </xsl:for-each-group>

That's a worker.


The reason that concat() didn't work is that you were presumably
doing something like:

    concat(mu/loc/@hl, '+', mu/loc/@side, '+', mu/loc/@loc)

In this function call, the first, third and last arguments all select
sequences containing multiple nodes

 The concat() function expects its arguments
to either be empty sequences ('empty node-sets' in XPath 1.0
terminology) or singleton sequences (single values or node-sets
containing a single node in XPath 1.0 terminology).

I was close. But missed the context difference :-)


A concat() call like the one I suggested:

  concat(@hl, '+', @side, '+', @loc)

is fine because the paths @hl, @side and @loc cannot select more than
one node because no two attributes on an element are named the same.


Very clear now thanks.

regards DaveP.

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