RE: [xsl] Splitting files 5 at a time

["Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx>]

> From: Danny Leblanc [mailto:leblancd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 April, 2008 14:08
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Splitting files 5 at a time
>
>   I have played with the for-each since I won't need a loop
> iteration per CUSTOMER anymore but 1 per 5 so I tried something like
>
> <xsl:for-each select="DATA_FILE/CUSTOMER[count() mod 5 = 0">
>
>   But this did not work. I am certain I will have to change
> the apply-templates as well but I have not even gotten to
> that point yet.

I recently had to do something similar, so perhaps you could modify
what I did to fit your situation.  My problem was that I had a list
of n items and I wanted to group the list by the first two items,
then the next two items, etc.  This is basically what I came up
with:

<xsl:for-each-group select="$values"
  group-by="ceiling(position() div 2)"
>
  <xsl:variable name="first"  select="current-group()[1]"/>
  <xsl:variable name="second" select="current-group()[2]"/>
  <!-- ... -->
</xsl:for-each-group>

So I'm thinking that you could do:

<xsl:for-each-group select="DATA_FILE/CUSTOMER"
  group-by="ceiling(position() div 5)"
>
  <xsl:result-document ...>
  </xsl:result-document>
</xsl:for-each-group>


Andy.