Hi there, pretty new to XSLT and wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction. I'm trying to take a flat db structure from a query and transform it into a hierarchical xml structure.

This is the flat structure from the db:

<data>
   <row>
      <section_depth>1</section_depth>
      <section_title>Home</section_title>
   </row>
   <row>
      <section_depth>2</section_depth>
      <section_title>Events</section_title>
   </row>
   <row>
      <section_depth>3</section_depth>
      <section_title>Event 1</section_title>
   </row>
   <row>
      <section_depth>3</section_depth>
      <section_title>Event 2</section_title>
   </row>
   <row>
      <section_depth>2</section_depth>
      <section_title>Equipment</section_title>
   </row>
   <row>
      <section_depth>2</section_depth>
      <section_title>News</section_title>
   </row>
   <row>
      <section_depth>3</section_depth>
      <section_title>News 1</section_title>
   </row>
   <row>
      <section_depth>3</section_depth>
      <section_title>News 2</section_title>
   </row>
</data>

I'm looking to transform this with XSLT 2, into this using the section_depth as the indentation, can always assume the flat structure will be in the right order:

<site>
   <section>
      <title>Home</title>
      <section>
         <title>Events</title>
         <section>
            <title>Event 1</title>
         </section>
         <section>
            <title>Event 2</title>
         </section>
      </section>
      <section>
         <title>Equipment</title>
      </section>
      <section>
         <title>News</title>
         <section>
            <title>News 1</title>
         </section>
         <section>
            <title>News 2</title>
         </section>
      </section>
   </section>

I've played around with grouping but my head started to hurt. Thanks in advance for any help!

Dave

There's a paper that solves essentially this problem at

http://www.idealliance.org/proceedin...mhk-paper.html

Your head will probably still hurt for a while, but the solution is surprisingly simple.

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