Hi,

I am currently trying to convert docx bullet or list items into html.

I have noticed that in the xml, all list items that belong to a particular list have the same rsidP.

So in order to start, I have the following xsl that will get me a list of the distinct rsidP's.

<xsl:template name="doLists">

    <xsl:for-each select="distinct-values(/w:document/w:body/w:p/@w:rsidP)" >
            <p>
                    <xsl:value-of select="." /> </p>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Now, this works in that it displays the list id's; however, I am now stuck in that I am unable to start at the root of the document to filter through these lists.

For instance:

<xsl:template name="doLists">

    <xsl:for-each select="distinct-values(/w:document/w:body/w:p/@w:rsidP)" >
            <xsl:variable name="rsidP" select="." />
            <xsl:for-each select="/w:document/w:body/w:p[rsidP = $rsidP]">
                <p>

                </p>
            </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

When I try this I get the error: Not a node item.
This has lead me to believe that I am still stuck and starting from the @w:rsidP element level, and that my xpath is actually trying to do something like
/w:document/w:body/w:p/@w:rsidP/w:document/w:body/w:p[rsidP = $rsidP]

Am I right in thinking this?

So basically, I'm trying to:
1) get a list of the unique ID's
2) for each unique id, iterate thru the nodes (in order) that have the id, and format it (this will need to be recursive as there are nested lists as well)

Can anyone help me out or point me in the right direction?

Cheers,
Mikey

If you're using distinct-values() then you're using XSLT 2.0

>So basically, I'm trying to:
1) get a list of the unique ID's
2) for each unique id, iterate thru the nodes (in order) that have the id, and format it (this will need to be recursive as there are nested lists as well)

That's basically a description of what xsl:for-each-group does. In XSLT this is usually much easier to use than distinct-values().

<xsl:for-each-group select="/w:document/w:body/w:p" group-by="@w:rsidP">
  <xsl:for-each select="current-group()">
    ...

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks Michael.

Is there a way then to iterate through the items of the group?

Actually, I found that you can iterate through current_group()...
Awesome! Thanks again :)