Try 

<xsl:if test="self::kapitel-container">

immediately within the for-each-group.

(Within for-each-group, the current item is the first item of the current
group).

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gregor FELLENZ [mailto:gf_public@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 15 February 2005 17:17
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  for-each-group but not the first?
> 
> hello
> 
> i've a flat xml-doc that i want to structure with the for-each-group  
> function. everything ist working fine, but i cant deselect 
> the first group  
> (wgicg i dont need). i've experimented with several ideas but 
> i can't find  
> the solution.
> 
> 
> any help would be great!
> 
> thank you
> 
> gregor
> 
> 
> -- My XSLT -------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"  
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"  
> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"  
> xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-functions"  
> xmlns:xdt="http://www.w3.org/2004/07/xpath-datatypes">
> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()" priority="-1">
>    <xsl:copy>
> 	<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>    </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="ehapa">
> 	<ehapa>
> 	<xsl:for-each-group select="*" 
> group-starting-with="kapitel-container">
> 		<xsl:element name="kapitel" >
> 			<xsl:attribute name="abschnittsmarke" 
> select="@abschnittsmarke"/>
> 			<xsl:attribute name="nav-titel" 
> select="@nav-titel"/>							
> 			<xsl:for-each-group select="current-group()"  
> group-starting-with="headline-container">
> 			<xsl:element name="artikel" >
> 				<xsl:attribute name="nav-titel" 
> select="@nav-titel"/>
> 					  <xsl:for-each 
> select="current-group()">
> 					  <xsl:copy>
> 						  
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> 					</xsl:copy>
> 				</xsl:for-each>
> 			</xsl:element>
> 		</xsl:for-each-group>
> 		</xsl:element>	
> 	</xsl:for-each-group>
> 	</ehapa>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> -- What I get ... using built in XMLSPY 2005 Home Processor ---
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <ehapa>
> 	<kapitel abschnittsmarke="Einleitung" nav-titel="e00">
> 	<artikel nav-titel="e00">
> 		<kapitel-container abschnittsmarke="Einleitung" 
> art="kapitel-start"  
> nav-titel="e00">
> 		[..]
> 		</kapitel-container>
> 	</artikel>
> 	
> 	<artikel nav-titel="e00_ein01">
> 		<headline-container art="headline" 
> nav-titel="e00_ein01">
> 		[...]
> 		</headline-container>
> 	</artikel>
> 	[...]
> 	</kapitel>
> 	[...]
> </ehapa>
> 
> -- What I need - The same without the first group ----
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <ehapa>
> 	<kapitel abschnittsmarke="Einleitung" nav-titel="e00">
> 	<artikel nav-titel="e00_ein01">
> 		<headline-container art="headline" 
> nav-titel="e00_ein01">
> 		[...]
> 		</headline-container>
> 	</artikel>
> 	[...]
> 	</kapitel>
> 	[...]
> </ehapa>
> 
> 
> --- My Source ist ---------
> <ehapa>
> 	<kapitel-container abschnittsmarke="Einleitung" 
> art="kapitel-start"  
> nav-titel="e00">[...]</kapitel-container>
> 	<headline-container art="headline"  
> nav-titel="e00_ein01">[...]</headline-container>
> 	<artikel-container art="textbox"  
> nav-titel="e00_ein01">[...]>/artikel-container>
> 	<artikel-container art="textbox"  
> nav-titel="e00_ein01">[...]>/artikel-container>
> 	<artikel-container art="textbox"  
> nav-titel="e00_ein01">[...]>/artikel-container>
> 	<headline-container art="headline"  
> nav-titel="e00_ein01">[...]</headline-container>
> 	[...]