RE: [xsl] Collecting sibling nodes under groupings

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not clear to me what "Some subjects" is. Is this a list of subjects, if
so what form does it take? Are you trying to get a single entry grouped
under more than one subject?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Wilson [mailto:drmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 January 2006 13:17
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Collecting sibling nodes under groupings
> 
> It was suggested that I resubmit my question with a more 
> specific subject 
> line.
> 
> I am building a library catalog for my club. I put each 
> book's description 
> in an XML sequence like (but simplified)
> <List>
>     <Entry>
>         <Subject>Some Subjects</Subject>
>         <Title>Some Title</Title>
>         <Publisher>Some Publisher</Publisher>
>     </Entry>
>     .......
> </List>
> 
> Using Saxon 8, I then did a grouping using XSLT 2.0's new 
> grouping element 
> so that I get a list of all the subjects, but only a single 
> entry for each. 
> Now I want to create:
> <List>
>     <Subject>First Subject
>         <Title> First title associated with this subject</Title>
>             <Publisher>Publisher associated with this 
> title</Publisher>
>         <Title> Next title associated with this subject</Title>
>              <Publisher>Publisher associated with this 
> title</Publisher>
>     </Subject>
>     .....
> </List>
> More to the point, I want to collect all of the sibling nodes 
> from an entry 
> with all of the sibling nodes from other entries that share 
> the same subject 
> value. I have really looked and just failed to understand 
> what I am looking 
> at. The examples appear to show how to collect attributes, 
> but not how to 
> collect sibling nodes. My attemps have all failed.
> Thanks,
> Mark