Input XML:
---------
<artbody>
<section id="s1">
<heading1 level="1">INTRODUCTION</heading1>
<para>xxx <b>xxx</b> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</para>

<subsect id="s1-1">
<heading2 level="2">Linkends</heading2>
<para>This paragraph contains fixed figure &lt;fx1&gt;, &lt;fx2&gt;, &lt;fx3&gt;.</para>
<para>This paragraph contains linkend type for Bibliography (numbered) (type=bib): [<link type="bib" linkend="">3</link>], [<link type="bib" linkend="">4, 7</link>], [<link type="bib" linkend="">7–12</link>], [<link type="bib" linkend="">14-18</link>], [<link type="bib" linkend="">3, 5, 7–12</link>] and [<link type="bib" linkend="">6, 8, 15-17</link>].</para></subsect1>

                            <subsect1 id="s1-5-1">
                            <heading3 level="3">Question and Answer</heading3>
                            <quest>What's you name?</quest>
                            <answer>Pradeep</answer>
                            <quest>How old are you?</quest>
                            <answer>62</answer>
                            <quest>So, what are you doing now?</quest>
                            <answer>Just chatting with an idiot</answer> </subsect>
                            </subsect>


            <subsect1 id="s1-5-1">
            <heading3 level="3">poem</heading3>
            <stanza>What's you name?</stanza>
            <stanza>Pradeep</stanza>
            </subsect>


<para>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</para>
 <para>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</para>
</section>
</artbody>

expected output xml:
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        <artbody>
                                    <section id="s1">
                                    <heading1 level="1">INTRODUCTION</heading1>
                                    <para>xxx <b>xxx</b> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</para>

                                    <subsect id="s1-1">
                                    <heading2 level="2">Linkends</heading2>
                                    <para>This paragraph contains fixed figure &lt;fx1&gt;, &lt;fx2&gt;,
                                &lt;fx3&gt;.</para>
                                    <para>This paragraph contains linkend type for Bibliography (numbered)
                                        (type=bib): [<link type="bib" linkend="">3</link>], [<link type="bib"
                                        linkend="">4, 7</link>], [<link type="bib" linkend="">7–12</link>],
                                        [<link type="bib" linkend="">14-18</link>], [<link type="bib"
                                        linkend="">3, 5, 7–12</link>] and [<link type="bib" linkend="">6, 8, 15-
                                        17</link>].</para></subsect1>

                                    <subsect1 id="s1-5-1">
                                    <heading3 level="3">Question and Answer</heading3>

<qanda>
                                    <quest>What's you name?</quest>
                                    <answer>Pradeep</answer>
                                    <quest>How old are you?</quest>
                                    <answer>62</answer>
                                    <quest>So, what are you doing now?</quest>
                                    <answer>Just chatting with an idiot</answer>
</qanda>
                                     </subsect>
                              </subsect>


                                     <subsect1 id="s1-5-1">
                                        <heading3 level="3">poem</heading3>



<poem>
            <stanza>What's you name?</stanza>
            <stanza>Pradeep</stanza>

</poem>
</subsect>


 <para>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</para>
 <para>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</para>
</section>
</artbody>


Style Sheet:
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<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml"
  xmlns:aml="http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core"
  xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
  xmlns:wx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint"
  xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
  exclude-result-prefixes="aml w wx o v">

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

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="artbody">
 <xsl:copy>
  <xsl:for-each-group select="child::node()" group-adjacent="self::quest or self::answer">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="current-grouping-key()">
        <quanta>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>

        </quanta>
      </xsl:when>
         <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
         </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:for-each-group>
  </xsl:copy>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Questions:
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1. I would like to group 'quest' & 'answer' under 'qanda'
2. I would like to group 'stanza' under 'poem'

I want to read each element dynamically and should group the orphan nodes such as quest & stanza under another parent element. But, with your suggestion, I could group one at a time. I couldn't do it in a loop. When I tried, I am getting duplicate of orphan nodes and all the attribute values are discarded.

If you could help us to design a xslt that groups "quest & answer" and "stanza" dynamically and retains all other elements untouched.

I sincerely appreciate your help in this regard.

Thanks & Regards,
- ROCXY

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Thanks,
Rocxy.