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 This is a grouping problem, since removing duplicates from your list is tantamount to grouping them by name. In XSLT 2.0, try this as the only template in a stylesheet: <xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:param name="this-ilk" select="."/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:for-each select="ancestor::*">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
<xsl:for-each-group select="$this-ilk/*" group-by="name()">
<xsl:apply-templates select=".">
<xsl:with-param name="this-ilk" select="current-group()"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:for-each-group>
</xsl:template>This is pretty subtle stuff. In prose: Match an element. Along with it, accept a parameter $this-ilk. If not given, $this-ilk will be the element matched. Write out a line break, indent two spaces for every ancestor element, and write out the element's name. Select the element children of $this-ilk in groups, grouping them by name. (Remember if $this-ilk was not given, the element's children will be selected, again grouped by name.) Apply this same template to the first element in the group (referred to as "." when grouping), providing the entire group as $this-ilk, so when the template is matched to the element, all its siblings of the same name will come along with it. This will descend the tree recursively. Note that given some "shaggy" document structures, like-named elements may appear twice, but never with exactly the same ancestry. I hope this helps. This can also be done in XSLT 1.0, but much less conveniently. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== 
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