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From: "Omega375" <safaridonna@-----.--->
To: NULL
Date: 8/2/2005 2:18:00 AM

Hello.

I'll first start off by showing the structure of my xml-file.

<root>
  <node path="X">
         More nodes containing data
  </node>
</root>


Let's see this like books;

<books>
  <book author="X">
         More nodes containing data
  </book>
</books>

What I now want to do (with XSLT) is to display all the books by the
author, eg;

JK Rowling
  * Harry Potter 1
  * Harry Potter 2

Tolkien
  * LOTHR 1
  * LOTHR 2

...


This can easly be done by using xpath "books/book[@author='JK
Rowling']".
This is where my problem is;
I don't knwo which authors that do exist in the xml-file. So somehow I
have to find all the names of the authors and then pass the names, one
by one, to the xpath.

I don't think adding

<authors>
  <author>Name</author>
  ...
</authors>

to the xml-file is an option.

I sure hope someone knows how to solve this problem.

Thank you in advance!

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