Try a google for "XSLT positional grouping".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Huditsch Roman [mailto:Roman.Huditsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 06 October 2004 15:37
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Making flat files strucutred hierarchically
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I am in search for a comfortable way for sructuring flat files.
> 
> Please take this source document as an example:
> 
>  
> 
> <?xml versio="1.0"?>
> 
> <root>
> 
>    <title>Titel 1</title>
> 
>   <para>Para 1</para>
> 
>   <para>Para 2</para>
> 
>   <para>Para 3</para>
> 
>   <title>Title 2</title>
> 
>   <para>Para 1</para>
> 
>   <para>Para 2</para>
> 
>   <title>Title 3</title>
> 
>   <para>Para 1</para>
> 
>   <para>Para 2</para>
> 
> </root>
> 
>  
> 
> After my XSLT 1,0 transformation the output should look like
> 
>  
> 
> <?xml versio="1.0"?>
> 
> <root>
> 
>    <layer>
> 
>      <title>Titel 1</title>
> 
>      <para>Para 1</para>
> 
>      <para>Para 2</para>
> 
>      <para>Para 3</para>
> 
>   </layer>
> 
>   <layer>
> 
>     <title>Title 2</title>
> 
>     <para>Para 1</para>
> 
>     <para>Para 2</para>
> 
>   </layer>
> 
>   <layer>  
> 
>     <title>Title 3</title>
> 
>     <para>Para 1</para>
> 
>     <para>Para 2</para>
> 
>   </layer>
> 
> </root>
> 
>  
> 
> Is there any way to do this? I don't know how to define "take 
> all "para" nodes up to the next "title" element.....
> 
> Can you help me?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
>  
> 
> Wbr,
> 
> Roman
> 
> 
> 
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