9140 2010-02-24 20:12:05 +0000 [XSLT 2.0] Order of items within current-group() is unclear 2010-07-20 10:35:30 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XSLT 2.0 Recommendation PC Windows NT CLOSED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 mike mike public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 32628 0 mike 2010-02-24 20:12:05 +0000 Problem raised by Vladimir Nestorovsky today on the xsl-list at mulberrytech. The specification of xsl:for-each-group is unclear as to the order of items in each group (that is, the result of current-group()). The intent is that the procedural algorithm given for each of the four grouping methods defines this order. But this relies on understanding that when an item is "added" to a group, or "assigned" to a group, it is added at the end of the sequence, which isn't explicitly stated. Suggestion: in the rules for the four grouping methods, change "added" and "assigned" to "appended", and add a sentence at the end saying that the order in which items are added to each group determines the order of the items in the group as returned by the current-group() function. 35676 1 mike 2010-05-13 16:54:11 +0000 The proposal in comment #0 has been approved in principle; an erratum will be drafted. 36890 2 mike 2010-07-15 08:56:37 +0000 Erratum E43 will be raised as proposed. 37006 3 mike 2010-07-20 10:35:30 +0000 I chose what I think is a simpler but equivalent solution: adding the paragraph: In all cases the items within a group remain in population order. That is, if items <var>A</var> and <var>B</var> are in the same group, then <var>A</var> will precede <var>B</var> in the group if <var>A</var> preceded <var>B</var> in the population.