Re: [xsl] Grouping elements using XSLT

["Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx>]

Your XML is not well formed. I corrected the XML to:

<author>
 <FirstName>Jane</FirstName>
 <LastName>Doe</LastName>
 <FirstName>John</FirstName>
 <LastName>Doe</LastName>
 <FirstName>Howard</FirstName>
 <LastName>Johnson</LastName>
</author>

The following stylesheet will work:

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

   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />

   <xsl:template match="/author">
      <authors>
          <xsl:for-each select="FirstName">
              <author>
                   <xsl:copy-of select=". | following-sibling::LastName[1]" />
              </author>
          </xsl:for-each>
      </authors>
   </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Mukul

On 6/21/06, Chad Chelius <cchelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have an XML file that looks like this:
>
> <author>
> <Firstname>Jane</FirstName>
> <LastName>Doe</Doe>
> <Firstname>John</FirstName>
> <LastName>Doe</Doe>
> <Firstname>Howard</FirstName>
> <LastName>Johnson</Doe>
> </author>
>
> The DTD that I am trying to validate to requires that each person be
> inside of their own <author> element like this:
>
> <author>
> <Firstname>Jane</FirstName>
> <LastName>Doe</Doe>
> </author>
> <author>
> <Firstname>John</FirstName>
> <LastName>Doe</Doe>
> </author>
> <author>
> <Firstname>Howard</FirstName>
> <LastName>Johnson</Doe>
> </author>
>
> Is this possible using an XSLT and if so, how do you do this?