what i want to do is a typical grouping that can usualy be done using xsl:key, but it become more complicated as data to groups are in 2 differents files. How process ? Here is an example of what i want to do, can i request your help ? must be xslt-1.0 compliant.
bookreference.xml :
<t>
<book isbn="1">
<category>SF</category>
</book>
<book isbn="2">
<category>SF</category>
</book>
<book isbn="3">
<category>SF</category>
</book>
<book isbn="4">
<category>Comedy</category>
</book>
<book isbn="5">
<category>Comedy</category>
</book>
</t>
mylibrary.xml :
<t>
<book isbn="1">
<price>10</price>
</book>
<book isbn="2">
<price>10</price>
</book>
<book isbn="3">
<price>20</price>
</book>
<book isbn="4">
<price>5</price>
</book>
</t>
output wanted:
SF : 3 book(s) - Total : 40$
Comedy : 2 book(s) - Total : 5$
As already suggested in my comment, you can first merge two documents into a result tree fragment, then use exsl:node-set to get a node-set on which you can then apply Muenchian grouping:
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
exclude-result-prefixes="exsl"
version="1.0">
<xsl:param name="price-url" select="'test2011113002.xml'"/>
<xsl:variable name="doc2" select="document($price-url)"/>
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:variable name="rtf">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//book" mode="merge"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="book" mode="merge">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:variable name="isbn" select="@isbn"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="@* | node()"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$doc2">
<xsl:copy-of select="key('k1', $isbn)/price"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:key name="k1" match="book" use="@isbn"/>
<xsl:key name="k2" match="book" use="category"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="exsl:node-set($rtf)/book[generate-id() = generate-id(key('k2', category)[1])]"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="book">
<xsl:variable name="current-group" select="key('k2', category)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="concat($current-group/category, ': ', count($current-group), ' - Total : ', sum($current-group/price), ' ')"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>