Re: problem creating containment during XHTML->XML

I'm in the process of breaking up an XHTML file into multiple XML files.

  <heading level="h1"><a name="content" id="content"></a>Overview</heading>
    <p>On February 20, 1865</p>

  <heading level="h3"><a name="mission" id="mission"></a>Mission</heading>
I'm cleaning up a bit and would like to add structure as follows...

  <section>
    <heading level="h1">Overview</heading>
      <p>On February 20, 1865</p>

  </section>
  <section>
    <heading level="h3"></a>Mission</heading>

- <xsl:template match="x:heading">
- <section>
- <title>
<xsl:value-of select="." /> </title>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*" />

The above puts me in an infinite loop.

Not necessarily infinite but certainly O(n^2) behaviour. Think about
it.
Instead of *all* following siblings of a heading, you want to select
only siblings whose first preceding header sibling is the matched
header.
Or in XPath:
 select="following-sibling::*[
   generate-id(preceding-sibling::x:header[1])=
   generate-id(current())]"
There are several other possiblities to express this, some of
which may have a better performance.