grouping elements

[ofuuzo1]

Hi,
I have the following xml file which I would like to transform to
another structure:

<person>
<dept>
<gr_name>sale</gr_name>
<gr_id>2<gr_id>
....
<dept>
<name>Peter Pan</name>
<dept>
</person>

<person>
<dept>
<gr_name>production</gr_name>
<gr_id>3<gr_id>
....
<dept>
<name>John John</name>
<dept>
</person>

<person>
<dept>
<gr_name>package</gr_name>
<gr_id>11<gr_id>
....
<dept>
<name>Roy Kemp</name>
<dept>
</person>
......

New xml would look like this:
<sale>Peter Pan</sale>
<production_package_etc>John John<production_package_etc>
<production_package_etc>Roy Kemp<production_package_etc>

I have written some thing like this and it is not working. What is
wrong her?
<xsl:for-each select="//person">
<xsl:if test="//person/dept/gr_id = 1">
<sale<xsl:value-of select="name" /><sale>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

<xsl:for-each select="//person">
<xsl:if test="//person/dept/gr_id != 1">
< production_package_etc<xsl:value-of select="name" /

>< production_package_etc>

</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

Thanks in advance.

[Martin Honnen]

of*****@yahoo.no wrote:

I have the following xml file which I would like to transform to
another structure:

<person>
<dept>

^^^^^^
So here is a 'dept' start tag

<gr_name>sale</gr_name>
<gr_id>2<gr_id>
....
<dept>

^^^^^^
And here is another one

<name>Peter Pan</name>
<dept>

^^^^^^
And here is yet another one while there are no matching end tags.
Can you post a well-formed sample? Currently it is not clear how your
input XML looks.

<xsl:for-each select="//person">
<xsl:if test="//person/dept/gr_id = 1">

You need a relative XPath here e.g.
<xsl:if test="dept/gr_id = 1">
but it is even better to write templates e.g.
<xsl:template match="person[dept/gr_id = 1]">
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/