Hello,

I think i am quite close to solving my problem but i am trying to create a 
key which groups titles with the same starting letter togather. This is the 
xsl:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xx="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
exclude-result-prefixes="xx">

<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />



<xsl:variable name="index">
<Best_Practices>http://....data.xml</Best_Practices>
<Business_and_Technical_Education>http://....data3.xml</Business_and_Technical_Education>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="nsindex" select="xx:node-set($index)"/>



<!--Create a key to catgeorise titles by first letter-->

<xsl:key name="cat-by-firstocc" match="document($nsindex/)//link" 
use="substring(title,1,1)" />



<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="document($nsindex/*)/root/link">
<xsl:value-of select="title" />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

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The xml structure of both files (bestpractice and busniess and technical 
education) are exactly the same, they look like this:



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<root>
<link><title></title><url></url></link>
<link><title></title><url></url></link>
<link><title></title><url></url></link>
</root>

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Xtrans seems to complain about not allowing a variable "$nsindex" in the 
match statement for the key tag. How do i create a key to group all files in 
nsindex by first letter of the titles?



Also, i have never created an xsl which only uses imported files before. 
What do i perform the translation against, an empty xml file?



cheers



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