Re: Help to unflatten xml file

I want to nest sections from a flat XML file based on the value of a section attribute. I have done this before with a similar but slightly different situation. I'm missing something with the behavior of xsl:for-each-group.

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="unflattenedDoc">
<book>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:for-each-group select="*" group-starting-with="section[@label=1]">

T:\ftemp>type steve.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<book type="Tech_Manual">
    <bookinfo>
        <title>client manual</title>
        <subtitle>performance data</subtitle>
    </bookinfo>
    <section id="a--21" label="1">
        <title lang="en">Preface</title>
        <para>some interesting stuff</para>
    </section>
    <section id="a--22" label="2">
        <title lang="en">Preface</title>
        <para>some more interesting stuff</para>
    </section>
    <section id="a--23" label="2">
        <title lang="en">Preface</title>
        <para>some more interesting stuff</para>
    </section>
    <section id="a--24" label="3">
        <title lang="en">Preface</title>
        <para>some more interesting stuff</para>
    </section>
    <section id="a--25" label="1">
        <title lang="en">Cautions</title>
        <para>some interesting stuff</para>
    </section>
</book>

T:\ftemp>call xslt2 steve.xml steve.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<book>
   <bookinfo>
      <title>client manual</title>
      <subtitle>performance data</subtitle>
   </bookinfo>
   <section id="a--21" label="1">
      <title lang="en">Preface</title>
      <para>some interesting stuff</para>
      <section id="a--22" label="2">
         <title lang="en">Preface</title>
         <para>some more interesting stuff</para>
      </section>
      <section id="a--23" label="2">
         <title lang="en">Preface</title>
         <para>some more interesting stuff</para>
         <section id="a--24" label="3">
            <title lang="en">Preface</title>
            <para>some more interesting stuff</para>
         </section>
      </section>
   </section>
   <section id="a--25" label="1">
      <title lang="en">Cautions</title>
      <para>some interesting stuff</para>
   </section>
</book>
T:\ftemp>type steve.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs">

    <xsl:output
        method="xml"
        omit-xml-declaration="no"
        encoding="utf-8"
        indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

  <xsl:template match="section[@label=1]" mode="group">
    <section>
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates mode="group"/>
        <xsl:for-each-group select="current-group()[position()>1]"
                            group-starting-with="section[@label=2]">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="group"/>
        </xsl:for-each-group>
    </section>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="section[@label=2]" mode="group">
    <section>
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates mode="group"/>
        <xsl:for-each-group select="current-group()[position()>1]"
                            group-starting-with="section[@label=3]">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="group"/>
        </xsl:for-each-group>
    </section>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="section[@label=3]" mode="group">
     <section>
       <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
       <xsl:apply-templates mode="group"/>
     </section>
  </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="node()" mode="group">
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template>

  <!-- 2nd pass -->
    <xsl:template match="book" mode="pass2">
        <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    </xsl:template>

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