Grouping stand alone nodes inside an element

Bala007 · December 30th, 2005, 08:31 AM

Hi All

I have an XML file like below:

<head>
<frnt>
<para>some text</para>
<list>some lists</list>
..........
<qes>Question 1</qes>
<ans>Answer 1<ans>
<qes>Question 2</qes>
<ans>Answer 2<ans>
<qes>Question 3</qes>
<ans>Answer 3<ans>
.........
</frnt>
<body>
------
</body>
</head>

As you can see I have the <qes> and <ans> information. I would like to group all those stand alone nodes in to a element called <queans> as shown below.

<head>
<frnt>
<para>some text</para>
<list>some lists</list>

<queans>

<qes>Question 1</qes>
<ans>Answer 1<ans>
<qes>Question 2</qes>
<ans>Answer 2<ans>
<qes>Question 3</qes>
<ans>Answer 3<ans>

</queans>

</frnt>
<body>
------
</body>
</head>

I need to do this using XSTL. I would greatly appreciate any help provided.

Thanks & Regards,
- Bala Krishnan

mhkay · December 30th, 2005, 01:35 PM

<xsl:template match="frnt">
  <xsl:copy-of select="para|list"/>
  <queans>
    <xsl:copy-of select="qes|ans"/>
  </queans>
</xsl:template>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Bala007 · December 30th, 2005, 02:25 PM

Thank you for your reply.

However, I would like to bring <para>, <list> nodes without hard-coding it in the xsl style sheet. I would like to take these nodes by order inside the <frnt>

Hope my explanation is clear.

Please help me.