Hi,

I would like to transform the following XML file with "positional grouping" to another XML file to generate a chapter structure. This works pretty good, if the elements are not EMPTY. (If one Element is empty the green Elements are ignored)

This is an example source XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Document>
 <Metainformation>
  <pDocumentTitle>Title of Document</pDocumentTitle>
  <pDocumentType>Handbook</pDocumentType>
  <aDocumentVersion>1.0</aDocumentVersion>
 </Metainformation>
 <Content>
  <pHeading1>My first Heading</pHeading1>
  <pText>This is a Text Element, which ist not empty.</pText>
  <pText name="emptyTextA"/>
  <pText name="emptyTextB"/>
  <pText name="emptyTextC"/>
  <pText>This is another Text Element, which is not empty</pText>
  <pHeading1>Größte Überschrift (eins)</pHeading1>
  <pImage href="file:///H:/Temp/veo/icons/emoticons/smile.gif">This ist a smiliey</pImage>
  <pImage href="file:///H:/Temp/veo/icons/emoticons/sad.gif">This is another icon</pImage>
  <pImage href="file:///H:/Temp/veo/icons/emoticons/tongue.gif"/>
  <pImage href="file:///H:/Temp/veo/icons/emoticons/biggrin.gif"/>
  <pImage href="file:///H:/Temp/veo/icons/emoticons/wink.gif"/>
 </Content>
</Document>

And this is the XSLT stylesheet, which transforms the flat XML structure to generate chapters:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
 <xsl:element name="Document">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
 </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Metainformation">
 <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Content">
 <xsl:element name="Content">
  <xsl:for-each select="./pHeading1">
   <xsl:element name="chapter">
   <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    <xsl:call-template name="generateChapter">
     <xsl:with-param name="kNode" select="following-sibling::*"/>
     <xsl:with-param name="kPos" select="1"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:element>
  </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="generateChapter">
 <xsl:param name="kNode"/>
 <xsl:param name="kPos"/>
 <xsl:if test="name($kNode[$kPos])!='pHeading1'">
  <xsl:copy-of select="$kNode[$kPos]"/>
  <xsl:if test="$kNode[$kPos]!=$kNode[last()]">
   <xsl:call-template name="generateChapter">
    <xsl:with-param name="kNode" select="$kNode"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="kPos" select="$kPos+1"/>
   </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:if>
 </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The following XML file is the result. If one Element is empty (red), the following sibling Elemnts are ignored by the transformation:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Document>
 <Metainformation>
  <pDocumentTitle>Title of Document</pDocumentTitle>
  <pDocumentType>Handbook</pDocumentType>
  <aDocumentVersion>1.0</aDocumentVersion>
 </Metainformation>
 <Content>
  <chapter>
   <pHeading1>My first Heading</pHeading1>
   <pText>This is a Text Element, which ist not empty.</pText>
   <pText name="emptyTextA"/>
  </chapter>
  <chapter>
   <pHeading1>Größte Überschrift (eins)</pHeading1>
   <pImage href="file:///H:/Temp/veo/icons/emoticons/smile.gif">This ist a smiliey</pImage>
   <pImage href="file:///H:/Temp/veo/icons/emoticons/sad.gif">This is another icon</pImage>
   <pImage href="file:///H:/Temp/veo/icons/emoticons/tongue.gif"/>
  </chapter>
 </Content>
</Document>

Does somebody know this problem? How can I copy the whole structure inclusively the EMPTY Elements?

Many thanks in advance.
Borg