Re: Grouping repeating elements

At 10:12 AM 7/11/01, Trevor wrote:
[snip]

Have a template matching "name".
In the body of this template create the target <person> element,
copying the matched <name> element, e.g. using copy-of.
To handle elements which always appear, use copy-of with
following-sibling to get the *first* element after the name of the
given type.  Get this working first, and see that 'phil' ends up with
age 28.  Make sure everyone gets just one age!
When you have that XPath right, you now have to add a condition that
the node you find matches the current <name> node and not a later one.
So, add a further condition that the <name> node before the one you
have found is the same node as the one matched in your template: use
preceding-sibling and generate-id().

Have a try at this yourself, if you get stuck ask again.

Cheers,
Wendell

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