On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:18:55AM -0000, Michael Kay wrote:
Oh dear. Another victim falls in the elephant trap. You're in good
company, lots of people have fallen in before you.
Yes, it felt like an elephant trap :)
Firstly, XSLT stylesheets have to be well-formed XML, so this is
syntactic nonsense.
At a deeper level, XSLT stylesheets don't write start and end tags, they
write nodes. An element node in the stylesheet is an instruction to
write an element node to the result tree. You really have to grasp this
essential concept. You can't write half a node to a tree.
I was getting a sense of this. Thanks for the clarification.
Finally, this is a grouping problem, so go to
www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping, and find out how to solve it.
I had looked at this, and was working through the example, but was not
understanding it well. However, your response and Wendell's, combined
to trigger my understanding. I now have the example working.
Thanks again,
Dave.
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