This is a standard grouping problem and you can use either of the
standard grouping techniques (preceding-sibling or Muenchian grouping).

<xsl:for-each select="item[not(type=preceding-sibling::type)]">
  <p><xsl:value-of select="type"/></p>
  <xsl:for-each select="../item[type=current()/type]">
   ...

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Prince Ohilip
> Sent: 22 June 2002 07:04
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Grouping using a Child Node....
> 
> 
> Hi,
>     I have a Requirement in which i have to do grouping of Parent 
> Nodes based on a child node value
> 
> For Eg:
>     If i have an XML like
>     <items>
>        <item>
>          <type>A</type>
>          <name>one</name>
>          <value>100</value>
>       </item>
>        <item>
>          <type>A</type>
>          <name>three</name>
>          <value>300</value>
>       </item>
> 
>        <item>
>          <type>B</type>
>          <name>four</name>
>          <value>100</value>
>       </item>
> 
>        <item>
>          <type>B</type>
>          <name>five</name>
>          <value>300</value>
>       </item>
>        <item>
>          <type>A</type>
>          <name>six</name>
>          <value>100</value>
>       </item>
> </items>
> 
> I want to create a XSL for Generating an HTML Table grouped by 
> Type
> 
> Table will be like
> 
>             ItemName  Value
> Type -A
>             one       100
>             Three     300
>             Six       100
> 
> Type - B
>             four      100
>             five      300
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
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