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Subject: RE: [xsl] Comparing and re-assigning variables.
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:29:47 -0500

At 2003-02-24 15:14 +0200, Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Ok, here's a part of a xsl file i wrote to create a
> transactions report:
>
> <!-- Iterate over all txns. -->
> <table border="0">
> <xsl:for-each select="report-root/txns">
>     <xsl:sort select="cpmBI"/>
>     <xsl:sort select="date"/>

Note, Jarno, the sorting that the original poster is doing.


Using xsl:for-each you don't; if you process the txns using a recursive template construct, you can always pass the previous currCpmBI, but not using xsl:for-each - it's *not* a for-loop like in, say, Java. Instead just do

<xsl:if test="cpmMemBI = previous-sibling::txns[1]/cpmMemBI">

This will visit the source node tree in document order, and not in sorted order.


Unless I'm missing something (easily possible early on a Monday morning), I'm not convinced a recursive template addressing nodes in document order is going to quite address the poster's needs to know the "previous" node in sorted order.

I hope this helps.

..................... Ken


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