Hi, here is a simple input of the XML

<FieldGroup>
   <Field>1</Field>
   <Field>2</Field>
   <Field>3</Field>
   <Field>4</Field>
   <Field>5</Field>
   <Field>6</Field>
</FieldGroup>

My intention is to put a <div> for every two Field items I encountered

Output:

<div>
   <Field>1</Field>
   <Field>2</Field>
</div>
<div>
   <Field>3</Field>
   <Field>4</Field>
</div>
<div>
   <Field>5</Field>
   <Field>6</Field>
</div>

Is this something I can accomplish using the for each group in xslt? If not, any suggested approach i can try? Thanks.

You can use

<xsl:for-each-group select="Field" group-adjacent="position()-1 idiv 2">
  <div>
    <xsl:copy-of select="current-group()"/>
  </div>
</xsl:for-each-group>

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

I tried this; however, the output seems to be the following:

<div>
  <Field>1</Field>
</div>
<div>
  <Field>2</Field>
</div>
<div>
  <Field>3</Field>
</div>
...
..

I appreciated your response, maybe I can manipulate the group-adjacent selection to make it work. Thanks.

Should be group-adjacent="(position()-1) idiv 2". Sorry for the slip.

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

Thanks, Mhkay, what I technically want to do is the following.

INput:

<FieldGroup>
   <Field>1</Field>
   <Field>2</Field>
   <Field>3</Field>
</FieldGroup>

I want to surround every two Field items using a single div as before. Yet, insteads of copying the Field items over. I have a template called <xsl:template match="Field"> which i called for every field item. Apparently, with some changes to your method,

<xsl:for-each-group select="Field" group-adjacent="position()-1 idiv 2">
  <div>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="../Field"/>
  </div>
</xsl:for-each-group>

assuming the template do nothing for now

I will get a different result such as

<div>
  <Field>1</Field>
  <Field>2</Field>
  <Field>3</Field>
<div>
<div>
  <Field>1</Field>
  <Field>2</Field>
  <Field>3</Field>
</div>

The result was produced twice. I don't understand what the problem is.

I resolved the issue, thanks very much for your assistance.

For each group, you are applying templates not to the Fields in the current-group(), but to all the Fields that are children of the parent of the first field in the group.

Use <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>

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