Hi Jay,

Unfortunately, although your solution works for me in Saxon 8B, it fails
in Saxon 6.5.3, Xalan and MSXML 4, giving errors on the theme of "Cannot
convert a result tree fragment to a node-set". It seems that Saxon
supports some such conversion automatically (possibly a side-effect of
XSLT 2 support?), but as my client may switch XSLT processors at any time,
I'm having to stick to standard XSLT 1.0.

Thanks for your suggestion; if I can ever guarantee a supporting
processor, I'll bear it in mind. In the meantime, if you need something
similar to work cross-processor, the approach posted by Joris Gillis works
for me.

Regards,

Nick.

> Hi, Nick,
>
> How do you determine which values go in which divs? That is, what is the
> logic behind the grouping? It appears to two to a div, but it's hard to
> tell with a small data sample. If you do just want to a div element around
> every pair of values, that's pretty straightforward:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
>   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>
>   <xsl:variable name="articles">
>     <xsl:for-each select="/articles/article">
>       <xsl:sort select="@priority" data-type="number" order="descending"/>
>       <p><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:variable>
>
>   <xsl:template match="articles">
>     <xsl:for-each select="$articles/p">
>       <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 1">
>         <div>
>           <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>           <xsl:if test="following-sibling::*[1]">
>             <xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::*[1]"/>
>           </xsl:if>
>         </div>
>       </xsl:if>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> The notion is to first get a list of sorted p elements, which you can then
> stuff into whatever logic you need for div elements. In this case, I just
> grouped them as pairs (as your output showed). Speaking of output, here's
> what Saxon 8.5 gave me:
>
> <div>
>    <p>
>     first
>   </p>
>    <p>
>     second
>   </p>
> </div>
> <div>
>    <p>
>     third
>   </p>
>    <p>
>     last
>   </p>
> </div>
>
> Jay Bryant
>  Bryant Communication Services
> (presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)
>
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Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/