Re: [xsl] Working around immutable variables

Subject: Re: [xsl] Working around immutable variables
From: "Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 21:12:25 -0000
1. in XSLT 1.0: http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/muenchian.html

2. XSLT 2.0 and above:
  a). https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#func-distinct-values
  b). https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#xsl-for-each-group

Cheers,
Dimitre

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Jacopille, David djacopille@xxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> We have a for-each loop that constructs a table.  The first column is a
> region that would normally look like the following b we would like to
show
> the first region name only to avoid repetition.
>
>
>
> US
>
> US
>
> US
>
> US
>
> Europe
>
> Europe
>
> Europe
>
> Asia
>
> Asia
>
>
>
> My non-xsl mind wants to use a mutable variable:
>
> initialize a variable $current_region to bb
> loop through each row
> If current rowbs region column COLUMN[@name=bregionb] does not equal
> $current_region then:
>
> select the region so it shows in the table
> reassign $current_region to the string value of the current rowbs region
> column
>
>
>
> Perhaps comparing the current category to the preceding-sibling?
>
>
>
> Perhaps a loop on select=bdistinct_valuesb& to find region names,
enclosing
> another loop that goes through each distinct regionbs rows?  If
position()=1
> worked in that context perhaps this would work?
>
>
>
> Webre aware of the saxon namespace that allows for the mutable variable
> cheat, but would like to avoid this.
>
>
>
> I would greatly appreciate your recommendations.
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> David Jacopille
>
> Boston
>
>
>
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