RE: [xsl] Complicated grouping and column question

["Brook Ellingwood" <belling@xxxxxxx>]

I didn't catch that the elements were unsorted. That changed everything.
In my example the sorting is an arbitrary one done at time of
data-entry, so my challenge wasn't nearly as great.

-----Original Message-----
From: Will McCutchen [mailto:mccutchen@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:56 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Complicated grouping and column question


> I just did this exact same thing. My solution was to find middle child

> of the parent elements, and identify it with a key, then put all the
> preceding-siblings of that child's parent, plus the parent itself in
> the left hand column, and all the following-siblings of that child's
> parent in the right hand column.

I tried a few experiments along these lines, but they did not work for
me.  I couldn't find the correct middle child because the elements
weren't in the correct order.  At least, I couldn't think of a way to do
it on my own.  Thanks for the help, though.


Will.