RE: [xsl] Is this about grouping ?

[Benoit_Aumars@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Trevor,

Thanks for your reply.

> What is the 'correct' indentation?  I assume the blank line means
> something - what?
This is the original source :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<topic>
	<a>ItemA</a>
	<b>ItemB</b>
	<f>text1</f>
	<g>text2</g>
	<h>text3</h>
	<i>text4</i>

	<a>ItemA</a>
	<b>ItemB</b>
	<f>text5</f>
	<g>text6</g>
	<h>text7</h>
	<i>text8</i>

	<a>ItemA</a>
	<b>ItemB</b>
	<f>text9</f>
	<g>text10</g>
	<h>text11</h>
	<i>text12</i>
</topic>
I should say that each child element has one tab.
Does it make sense for you ?
The blank line does not mean anything, it's just to give a better
readability.

> What is it that tells you this should be done?  Does <g> always
> immediatly follow <f>?  If there is no <g> what happens?  I guess you
> want something like following:: or following-sibling:: but its hard to
> tell.
The transformation that I want is to concatenate <f> and <g>.
<g> always immediately follow <f>. The document contain all child element
<a>, <b>, <f> ,<g>, <h>, and <i>, so <g> is always there. It may that <g>
is an empty node.

> 
> I agree with Mike, the structure of your XML is probably wrong, or at
> least not good.
Not sure of that.

If you have a flat file like this :
  a        b         f        g       h       i            <-- column header
ItemA    ItemB     text1    text2    text3   text4
ItemA    ItemB     text5    text6    text7   text8
ItemA    ItemB     text9    text10   text11  text12

I guess the structure of the above XML is correct, unless you other opinion.

Thanks,
Benoit Aumars.


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