Thanks Mike, I was looking for the non for-each solution.  Performance
wise - which is best?

cheers

andrew

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[ps.  <xsl:template match="bar"/> needed to include <xsl:value-of
select="."/> to output the text for anyone else using this]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Kay
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 12:30 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  iterating over unstructured data


>
> This may be a faq, but my searches have so far been unproductive.
>
> For the data:
>
> <root>
>   <foo>1</foo>
>   <bar>2</bar>
>   <foo>3</foo>
>   <bar>4</bar>
>   <foo>5</foo>
>   <bar>6</bar>
>   <foo>7</foo>
>   <bar>8</bar>
>   <foo>9</foo>
>   <bar>10</bar>
> </root>
>
> I want to output the following format (foo followed by bar on
> each line):
>
> 1	2
> 3	4
> 5	6
> 7	8
> 9	10
>
> What is the best way of going about this?
>
<xsl:template match="foo">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::bar[1]"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="bar"/>

<xsl:template match="root">
<table>
<xsl:apply-templates select="foo"/>
</table>
</xsl:template>

Michael Kay
Software AG
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