Re: empty element as an end-marker

<p>
line1<br/>
line2<br/>
line3 <green>more line3<br/>
but no! line4</green> more line4 <br/>
linen
</p>

Cheers,
Wendell

A more efficient solution is to treat it as a grouping problem.
The sibling elements between two br elements constitute a group, the
grouping key for this group is the generate-id() of the most recent br
(or p) element. So you can use Muenchian grouping with the grouping key:

<xsl:key name="k" match="p/node()"
use="concat(generate-id(..), generate-id(preceding-sibling::br[1]"/>

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