Arranging tables in XSLT

[GavinP1983]

Hi

I've a list of names and associated details, for example:

<name>Gav</name>
<home>UK</home>
<age>16</age>

<name>Brian</name>
<home>UK</home>
<age>22</age>

<name>Sarah</name>
<home>USA</home>
<age>55</age>

I'm new to this so please bear with me. Using a for-each loop, I can iterate through the list and print it out by <home> (for example, Gavin and Brian would come before Sarah) but I'd like to create a table and list Brian and Gavin in it by their country. Sarah would be in a separate table with anyone else from the USA.

Could anyone give me an idea of how to do this?

 

[JontyMC]

You need to use grouping:

http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/muenchian.html

One method is to use xpath to see which nodes have no previous siblings that are the same (can be slow if large XML). The other way is to use keys.

Try that link, if you get stuck, gimme a shout.

Jon

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