Re: [xsl] Bibliography author repetition handling

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 04.10.2017 um 08:25 schrieb Charles Muller acmuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> In a TEI <biblStruct> bibliography that uses 
> biblStruct/*/author/surname B (etc), I have managed to write the code 
> that checks if the author name in the prior <biblStruct> is the same, 
> in which case the output is ---. rather than the author's name. It 
> works fine, but I'm running into a problem where there the first 
> author name is the same as that of the prior <biblStruct> entry, but 
> there are also multiple authors, in which case the full name should be 
> printed out.
>
> I thought that one way I might resolve this is to test if the number 
> of authors in the prior entry is the same as this one, but I can't get 
> it to work. I also don't know if this is even the best way of handling 
> this. The XML is like this:B  (present output here: 
> http://www.acmuller.net/articles-shisou.html)

To me this sounds like a grouping problem where you want to group your 
biblStruct elements with a composite key mad up of analytic/author, I am 
not sure whether you want group-adjacent or group-by.