[xsl] Re: job for xsl:key? (XSL 1.0 question)

[Steve <subsume@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can someone provide me a solution that doesn't involve the left bracket? =)

Thanks for picking up the challenge guys, I have plenty to work with,

-Steve

On 2/20/07, Steve <stephen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I could do the following easily by making a recursive template and
> then looping through the contacts, and passing on the corresponding
> benchmark value.  But could xsl:key make for a shorter, more elegant
> solution?
>
> Instead of performing an addition for each <contact>, could I simply
> sum() them at once, somehow?
>
> With the following XML
>
> <types>
>     <type value="1" benchmark1="540" />
>     <type value="2" benchmark1="640" />
>     <type value="3" benchmark1="740" />
> </types>
> <contacts>
>     <contact type="1" />
>     <contact type="2" />
>     <contact type="3" />
>     <contact type="3" />
> </contacts>
>
> desired output:
>
> <totals>
>     <benchmark val='2660'  />
> </totals>