You might try 
http://developer.marklogic.com/pubs/4.1/apidocs/Lexicons.html#cts:element-value-ranges

-- Mike

On 2010-08-26 06:13, helen chen wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I need to do a thing:
>
> In each article, there is a unique element called volume, it is a number 
> value.  I need to return a range list that divide the volume number into 100 
> and then make the list like:
> 1000-1099, 1100-1199, 1200-1299....
>
> This is to group the volume list into shorter list for user because we have a 
> huge list of volume number, you can say 8000 for now, and it grows very fast.
>
> What I did is: I use cts:element-values to return the unique volume list, 
> then  I go through this list and build the range.  I feel that this is not 
> fast as what I want because this is only small part of the page.
>
>   I'm thinking to add an element volume-range to each article for this rage 
> so I can do cts:element-values for this new element, but I have a requirement 
> that: when it is the lowest volume, I have to show like 1008-1099, and when 
> it is the max volume number, I have to show like 8800-8823.  The article with 
> new volume number can come in at any time, so I still need to get the unique 
> volume list to figure out the max volume number and min volume number using 
> cts:element-values, and then I use cts:element-values for volume-range to get 
> range list, and then do the min/max replace. It does not seem to me as a good 
> solution.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for this?
>
> Thanks, Helen
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