Break in XML

Question

I'm doing a transformation from an XML document, and want to display rows, but break on a particular column (i.e. List employees by department, but only show the department one time). I have experimented with all sorts of combinations using <xsl:variable> to compare the last department value to the current one, but for some reason, when I assign a value to the last variable, it gets lost. Here is the XSL fragment. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:variable name="LD" select="'NONE'"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="HEADER"/>
<table border="1" bgcolor="lightblue" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2">
<tr>
<th>Department</th>
<th>Line Name</th>
<th>PTD Actual</th>
<th>PTD Budget</th>
<th>PTD Variance</th>
<th>PTD Variance Pct</th>
</tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="ROW"/>
</table>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ROW">
<tr bgcolor="white">
<xsl:variable name="CD" select="DEPARTMENT_DESC"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$LD!=$CD">
<td><xsl:value-of select="$LD"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="DEPARTMENT_DESC"/></td>
<xsl:variable name="LD" select="$CD"/>
<td><xsl:value-of select="$LD"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="$CD"/></td>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<td><xsl:value-of select="' '"/></td>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<td><xsl:value-of select="LINE_NAME"/></td>
<td align="right">$<xsl:value-of select="format-number(PTD_ACTUAL,'#,###,##0.00')"/></td>
<td align="right">$<xsl:value-of select="format-number(PTD_BUDGET,'#,###,##0.00')"/></td>
<td align="right">$<xsl:value-of select="format-number(PTD_VARIANCE,'#,###,##0.00')"/></td>
<td align="right"><xsl:value-of select="format-number(PTD_VARIANCE_PCT,'#,###,##0.00')"/>%</td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Answer 1

hi, just thought I'd let you know that I'm trying to do the same thing you are. I'm looking into XPath as the solution to this but its still out of my reach at the moment. I'll let you know If I figure anything out, please post back here if you manage to solve this problem. Also see my other post with subject:
sqlplus BREAK ON functionality through xslt
Good Luck.
Originally posted by Larry Scheurich ([email protected]):
I'm doing a transformation from an XML document, and want to display rows, but break on a particular column (i.e. List employees by department, but only show the department one time). I have experimented with all sorts of combinations using <xsl:variable> to compare the last department value to the current one, but for some reason, when I assign a value to the last variable, it gets lost. Here is the XSL fragment. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated