RE: [xsl] grouping list items by attribute

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can find an XSLT 2.0 solution to this problem (or one that is very
similar) in section 3.2 of

http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/papers/111/mhk-paper.html

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynn Alford [mailto:lynn.alford@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 03 October 2005 23:59
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] grouping list items by attribute
> 
> Given this as the input
> 
> <tx.list style="ID1c6">
>            <tx.li level="0" number="1.   ">
>              <tx.p style="ID1a2">List1</tx.p>
>            </tx.li>
>            <tx.li level="0" number="2.   ">
>              <tx.p style="ID1a2">List2</tx.p>
>            </tx.li>
>            <tx.li level="1" number=".    ">
>              <tx.p style="ID1a2">Sublist 1</tx.p>
>            </tx.li>
>            <tx.li level="1" number=".    ">
>              <tx.p style="ID1a2">Sublist 2</tx.p>
>            </tx.li>
>            <tx.li level="1" number=".    ">
>              <tx.p style="ID1a2">Sublist 3</tx.p>
>            </tx.li>
>            <tx.li level="0" number="3.   ">
>              <tx.p style="ID1a2">List3</tx.p>
>            </tx.li>
>          </tx.list>
> 
> The preferred outcome would be
> 
> <ol>
>            <li>List1</li>
>            <li>List2</li>
>            <ul>
>                    <li>Sublist 1</li>
>              <li>Sublist 2</li>
>              <li>Sublist 3</li>
>            </ul>
>            <li>List3</li>
>          </ol>
> 
> My basic problem is I can't quite figure out how you can use 
> an increase in 
> level to trigger the start of a new list.  Especially when 
> the lists may be 
> nested much deeper and any level may be either ordered or unordered 
> lists.  Siblings at the same level I can do easily enough.
> 
> Lynn
> 
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> 'I think an "uncatched exception" deserves three bug reports: 
> one for the
> exception, one for not catching it, and one for abuse of the English
> language.'  Michael Kay