Jarno.Elovirta,
Thank you so much for such an elegant solution! I spent hours on it.
~V
-----Original Message-----
From: Jarno(_dot_)Elovirta(_at_)nokia(_dot_)com
[mailto:Jarno(_dot_)Elovirta(_at_)nokia(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:35 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] Recursion Problem
Hi,
I am having a problem with recursion.
A student can have multiple claims & I am trying to group 6
claims in every
node. I tried to do recursion but, i lose one node always with every
recursion
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:key name="name" match="service" use="name"/>
<xsl:template match="service_list">
<serv_list>
<xsl:for-each select="service[generate-id(.) = generate-id(key('name',
name))]">
<xsl:call-template name="group">
<xsl:with-param name="node-set" select="key('name', name)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:for-each>
</serv_list>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="group">
<xsl:param name="node-set"/>
<final_serv_list>
<xsl:copy-of select="$node-set[1]/name"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="$node-set[1]/cr_case_id_fk"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$node-set[position() <= 6]/claim_amount">
<xsl:element name="{concat(name(), '_', position())}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:if test="count($node-set) < 6">
<xsl:for-each select="(document('')//*)[position() <= (6 -
count($node-set))]">
<serv_list/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:if>
</final_serv_list>
<xsl:if test="count($node-set) > 6">
<xsl:call-template name="group">
<xsl:with-param name="node-set" select="$node-set[position() >=
7]"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
or if the services are always ordered as they are in your example
<xsl:template match="service_list">
<serv_list>
<xsl:apply-templates select="service[1]"/>
</serv_list>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="service">
<xsl:variable name="group" select=". |
following-sibling::service[position() < 6][name = current()/name]"/>
<final_serv_list>
<xsl:copy-of select="name"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="cr_case_id_fk"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$group/claim_amount">
<xsl:element name="{concat(name(), '_', position())}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:if test="count($group) < 6">
<xsl:for-each select="(document('')//*)[position() <= (6 -
count($group))]">
<serv_list/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:if>
</final_serv_list>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="following-sibling::service[count($group)]"/>
</xsl:template>
Hope this helps,
Jarno - Simon Eve: December 2002 Mix