Re: [xsl] Can group-by treat its target it two ways?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,

On 11/7/2011 6:14 PM, Andrew wrote:
> On 7 November 2011 17:15, Wendell Piez<wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > As long as we're tuning each other's code:
> >
> > On 11/5/2011 2:18 PM, Mark wrote:
> > > <xsl:for-each-group select="Word" group-by="if
> > > (lower-case(substring(@word,1,1)) eq 'D
' or
> > > lower-case(substring(@word,1,1)) eq 'E' or
> > > lower-case(substring(@word,1,1)) eq 'E!' or
> > > lower-case(substring(@word,1,1)) eq 'E>') then
> > > lower-case(substring(@word,1,1)) else if
> > > (lower-case(substring(@word,1,2)) eq 'ch') then 'ch' else
> > > lower-case(substring(cps:remove-diacritics(@word), 1, 1))">
> >
> > Regular expressions?
> >
> > if matches(lower-case(@word),'^([D
EE!E>]|ch)')
> >    then replace(lower-case(@word),'^([D
EE!E>]|ch).*$','$1')
> >    else lower-case(substring(cps:remove-diacritics(@word), 1, 1))
>
> or at least:
>
> if  (lower-case(substring(@word,1,1)) = ('D
', 'E','E!','E>') ...
> which could then be:
>
> <xsl:variable name="seq" select="('D
', 'E','E!','E>')" as="xs:string+"/>
> with:
>
> if  (lower-case(substring(@word,1,1)) = $seq
>
> It would be interesting to know how 'group by' gets evaluated, if its
> once per item in the select this sort of tweak might make a
> difference...

Quite true.

Then there's also

if contains($seq,lower-case(substring(@word,1,1)))

where $seq is 'D
EE!E>'.

(I admit my brain has been permanently warped by XSLT 1.0.)

Cheers,
Wendell

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