Hi All,

I have an XML file like below:

<artfront>
<metadata>…….</metadata>
   <journaldata>……</journaldata>
   <author>……………</author>
</artfront>


<artbody>

<section id="s1">
<heading1 level="1">section-1</heading1>

<para>This is ---------para---------text.</para>
<table1>------------Table Text---------------</table>

<procplace>------- proceeding date/place------</procplace>
<proctopic> ------proceeding topic--------------</proctopic>
<procplace>------- proceeding date/place------</procplace>
<proctopic> ------proceeding topic--------------</proctopic>
<procplace>------- proceeding date/place------</procplace>
<proctopic> ------proceeding topic--------------</proctopic>

 <footnotetext>This is ----------foot---------text</footnotetext>

<subsect id="s1-1">

<heading2 level="2">heading2 level 2</heading2>

<para>This is ---------para---------text.</para>


<procplace>------- proceeding date/place------</procplace>
<proctopic> ------proceeding topic--------------</proctopic>
<procplace>------- proceeding date/place------</procplace>
<proctopic> ------proceeding topic--------------</proctopic>

<figure1>--------------Figure info ---------------</figure>

    </subsect>

    <subsect id="s1-2">
             <heading2 level="2">heading2 level 2</heading2>
        <para>This is ---------para---------text.</para>
    </subsect>

<subsect id="s1-3">
    <heading2 level="2">heading2 level 2</heading2>
    <para>This is ---------para---------text.</para>

         <subsect id="s1-3-1">
          <heading3 level="3">heading3 level 3</heading2>
          <list>This is ---------list---------text.</list>


<procplace>------- proceeding date/place------</procplace>
<proctopic> ------proceeding topic--------------</proctopic>
<procplace>------- proceeding date/place------</procplace>
<proctopic> ------proceeding topic--------------</proctopic>

         <equation> This is ---------equation---------text.</equation>
     </subsect>
</subsect>
</section>

<section id="s2">
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</section>

</artbody>


As you can see I have the <procplace> and <proctopic> of proceedings information is in irregular format (i.e)

1st time inside -
<section id="s1"><heading1 level="1"> following <table1> and ending before <footnotetext>

2nd time inside -
<subsect id="s1-1"><heading2 level="2"> following <para> and ending before <figure1>

3rd time inside -
<subsect id="s1-3-1"> <heading3 level="3">following <list> and ending before <equation>

Similarly it comes in - <section id="s2"><section id="s3">………..

Exhibiting that there is no common node proceeds or follows <procplace> or <proctopic>, were as I would like to group all those <procplace> and <proctopic> inside <meetings>

<meetings>
<procplace>------- proceeding date/place------</procdate>
<proctopic> ------proceeding topic------</proctopic>
<procplace>------- proceeding date/place ------</procdate>
<proctopic> ------proceeding topic------</proctopic>
</meetings>

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

Thanks & Regards,
- ROCXY

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Thanks,
Rocxy.

In XSLT 1.0 this is difficult: search for "XSLT positional grouping".

In 2.0, you can do

<xsl:template match="*">
 <xsl:copy>
  <xsl:for-each-group group-adjacent="self::procplace or self::proctopic">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="current-grouping-key()">
        <meeting>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
        </meeting>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
      </
    </
  </
 </
</

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

Hi,

Following code suplies error.

<xsl:template match="*">
 <xsl:copy>
  <xsl:for-each-group group-adjacent="self::procplace or self::proctopic">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="current-grouping-key()">
        <meeting>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
        </meeting>
      </xsl:when>
         <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
         </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:for-each-group>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
--
Error at xsl:for-each-group on line 14 of file:/C:/box/axe.xsl:
  XTSE0010: Element must have a "select" attribute
Warning: on line 14 of file:/C:/box/axe.xsl:
  The self axis will never select any ** error ** nodes when starting at a element() node
Warning: on line 14 of file:/C:/box/axe.xsl:
  The self axis will never select any ** error ** nodes when starting at a element() node
Failed to compile stylesheet. 1 error detected.

Kindly help me to figure out the problem.

Thanks & Regards,
- ROCXY