Re: [xsl] for-each-group and result-document splitting to less files.

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

At 01:02 PM 9/10/2008, you wrote:
> function snipped
> -- though makes me curious... how hard would it be to change this so
> that the groupings were based on the count() of items in the nodeset?
> i.e. make divisions that were basically equal regardless of the input?
>  So if there were almost no entries in the first half of the alphabet,
> the first division would be a-r, then s-t (if a lot there), then u-w
> (if few there), etc.  maybe passing how many sets to split it into
> total?

Fun. (Hats off to Mike.)

> > BTW, why the double-escaping of '&'? I can't see how that would do
> > anything for you. The processor will see only the string '& a m p ;' here,
> > which translate() will decompose into characters.
>
> I have no idea how that ended up like that in my post, it isn't like
> that in my actual XSLT.... weird. Unless I mistyped it and then
> corrected it after pasting, or pasting into gmail did something weird.
> More likely the former.

Quite possibly. What a relief (I think).

Cheers,
Wendell



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