Re: [xsl] Grouping elements using XSLT

[Chad Chelius <cchelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Makul,
This worked! One other question though. As I'm doing this, how would  
I change the name of the <FirstName> and <LastName> elements to say  
<authorFName> and <authorLName> etc?

On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:43 AM, Mukul Gandhi wrote:

> 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