I wnat to create a directory like index from a list of names. I want
to
have section heading for each existing first-letter, followed by all
names starting with that first letter, omitting non-existant letters.
Like this:
A
Alexander
Andrea
M
Martin
Max
Moritz
I can see what you were trying to do... what you need to do is use the
Muenchian method of grouping - you find the first occurance of each
group, then apply-templates to its following-siblings (within the
group).
This should be what you need:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:key name="group-by-initial" match="name" use="substring(.,1,1)"/>
<xsl:template match="root">
<div>
<xsl:for-each select="name[generate-id(.) =
generate-id(key('group-by-initial',substring(.,1,1))[1])]">
<div style="margin-top:1em;text-transform:uppercase"><xsl:value-of
select="substring(.,1,1)"/></div>
<xsl:apply-templates
select=".|following-sibling::name[starts-with(.,substring(current(),1,1)
)]">
<xsl:sort select="."/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:for-each>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="name">
<div><xsl:apply-templates/></div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
cheers
andrew
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