when I have something like

<name>Tom</name>
<remark>1</remark>
<remark>2</remark>
<remark>3</remark>

<name>John</name>
<remark>4</remark>
<remark>5</remark>
<remark>6</remark>

is there a way of creating something like

Tom: 1,2,3
John: 4,5,6   ?

This is an example of a positional grouping problem.

One solution is:

<xsl:for-each select="name">
  <tr><td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
  <td>
  <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::remark[
              count(previous-sibling::name[1] | current()) = 1]">
    <xsl:value-of select="remark"/>,
  </xsl:for-each>
  </td>
  </tr>
</xsl:for-each>

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