Sorry about the poor xml of the input. It was way too long to include
and my edit dropped off some closing </story> tags. I have tried to
fix in the output and input below.

<book>
<bodymatter>
<level1>
    <story>
        <cluster_num>Cluster ONE</cluster_num>
        <cluster_head>What Influences a Decision?</cluster_head>
        <thinking_skill>Thinking Skill analyzing</thinking_skill>
    </story>
    <story>
        <pagenum>13</pagenum>
    </story>
    <imggroup>
        <img src="DecisionsDecisions3-web-images/Field%20boy%
20final_fmt.jpeg" alt="missing image file"/>
    <prodnote/></imggroup>
    <story>
        <pagenum>14</pagenum>
    </story>
<level2>
    <story>
        <story-title>Playing God</story-title>
        <author>Ouida Sebestyen</author>
        <p class="initial-paragraph">He was ...</p>
        <p>So he wasnt going to get away without saying good-bye
after all...</p>
    </story>
</level2>

        <!--multiple story, image, and page elements edited out-->
<level2>
    <story>
        <story-title>TLA</story-title>
        <author>Jane McFann</author>
        <p class="initial-paragraph">I trudged down the hallway
of ...</p>
        <p ....</p>
        <!--etc-->
    </story>
</level2>
</level1>
<level1>
    <story>
        <cluster_num>Cluster TWO</cluster_num>
        <cluster_head>Good Decision or Bad Decision?</cluster_head>
        <thinking_skill>Thinking Skill evaluating</thinking_skill>
    </story>
    <story>
        <pagenum>51</pagenum>
    </story>
    <imggroup>
        <img src="DecisionsDecisions3-web-images/school%
20final_fmt.jpeg" alt="missing image file"/>
    <prodnote/></imggroup>
    <story>
        <pagenum>52</pagenum>
    </story>
<level2>
    <story>
        <story-title>A Kind of Murder</story-title>
        <author>Hugh Pentecost</author>
        <p class="initial-paragraph">...</p>
    </story>
</level2
</level1>
</bodymatter>
</book>

Terry Ofner
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Terry Ofner wrote:

I have been having trouble with this grouping problem:
Input:

<book>
<bodymatter>
    <story>
        <cluster_num>Cluster ONE</cluster_num>
        <cluster_head>What Influences a Decision?</cluster_head>
        <thinking_skill>Thinking Skill analyzing</thinking_skill>
    </story>
    <story>
        <pagenum>13</pagenum>
    </story>
    <imggroup>
        <img src="DecisionsDecisions3-web-images/Field%20boy%
20final_fmt.jpeg" alt="missing image file"/>
    <prodnote/></imggroup>
    <story>
        <pagenum>14</pagenum>
    </story>
    <story>
        <story-title>Playing God</story-title>
        <author>Ouida Sebestyen</author>
        <p class="initial-paragraph">He was ...</p>
        <p>So he wasnt going to get away without saying good-bye
after all...</p>
	</story>
        <!--multiple story, image, and page elements edited out-->
    <story>
        <story-title>TLA</story-title>
        <author>Jane McFann</author>
        <p class="initial-paragraph">I trudged down the hallway
of ...</p>
        <p ....</p>
	</story>
        <!--etc-->
    <story>
        <cluster_num>Cluster TWO</cluster_num>
        <cluster_head>Good Decision or Bad Decision?</cluster_head>
        <thinking_skill>Thinking Skill evaluating</thinking_skill>
    </story>
    <story>
        <pagenum>51</pagenum>
    </story>
    <imggroup>
        <img src="DecisionsDecisions3-web-images/school%
20final_fmt.jpeg" alt="missing image file"/>
    <prodnote/></imggroup>
    <story>
        <pagenum>52</pagenum>
    </story>
    <story>
        <story-title>A Kind of Murder</story-title>
        <author>Hugh Pentecost</author>
        <p class="initial-paragraph">...</p>
	</story>
</bodymatter>
</book>

I would like to group each <cluster_num> inside <level1> elements
and <story-title> inside <level2> elements

Can you post the result you want to generate from the above XML
sample?

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