Re: XPath selecting chain of following siblings of the

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="node() | @*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*" />
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="a[not(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::a])]">
  <a-block>
    <xsl:copy-of select="." />
    <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1][self::a]" />
  </a-block>
</xsl:template>

I have tried to code the sibling-recursion technique for "positional
grouping" suggested by Michael Kay long time ago.

Hi!

I have following input XML:

 <root>
   <a id="1"/>
   <a id="2"/>
   <b/>
   <d/>
   <g/>
   <a id="3"/>
   <a id="4"/>
   <a id="5"/>
   <x/>
   <a id="6"/>
   <a id="7"/>
 </root>

and I'm trying to create XSLT 1.0 script, which would nest "uninterrupted"

sibling groups of 'a' elements into 'a-block' elements, so the output would
look like:

 <root>
   <a-block>
     <a id="1"/>
     <a id="2"/>
   </a-block>
   <b/>
   <d/>
   <g/>
   <a-block>
     <a id="3"/>
     <a id="4"/>
     <a id="5"/>
   </a-block>
   <x/>
   <a-block>
     <a id="6"/>
     <a id="7"/>
   </a-block>
 </root>

How should look XPath selecting next 'a' elements of the same group in

I was able to create this (see second xsl:copy-of) (derived from

 <xsl:template match="a">
   <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::a])"> <!-- first node of

     <xsl:element name="a-block">
       <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
       <xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::a
         [preceding-sibling::*[1][self::a]]

[generate-id(preceding-sibling::a[not(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::a])][1]) =
generate-id(current())]"/>

         <!-- first condition selects only 2nd+ nodes of each group -->
         <!-- second condition checks if the 1st node of the group is the

     </xsl:element>
   </xsl:if>
 </xsl:template>

and it works (as far as I have test it up to now), but it's ugly, there must

Thanks in advance!

Best regards, Tomas Kolaci
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Full script (it does not handle white spaces correctly, but it does not

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="no"/>

 <xsl:template match="root">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="a">
   <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::a])"> <!-- first node of

     <xsl:element name="a-block">
       <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
       <xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::a
         [preceding-sibling::*[1][self::a]]

[generate-id(preceding-sibling::a[not(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::a])][1]) =
generate-id(current())]"/>

         <!-- first condition selects only 2nd+ nodes of each group -->
         <!-- second condition checks if the 1st node of the group is the

     </xsl:element>
   </xsl:if>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="*">
   <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi