Another Type of Grouping: group-adjacent

With the group-adjacent approach, we’ll create a group based on some number of elements that are together in the source document. Our example input document is an HTML document that features groups of paragraphs together:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- group-adjacent_input.html -->
<html>
  <body>
    <h2>Steps for grouping in the Muench method</h2>
    <p>Define a <code>key</code> for the property we want 
    to use for grouping.</p>
    <p>Select all of the nodes ...</p>
    <p>For each unique grouping value, ...</p>
    <h2>Steps for grouping in XSLT 2.0</h2>
    <p>Define an XPath expression ...</p>
    <p>Select all of the nodes we want to group ...</p>
    <p>Instead of dealing with each ...</p>
  </body>
</html>

This is text from earlier in this chapter, displayed here as HTML. (This book is written entirely in DocBook, an XML vocabulary with a very well-defined structure.) What we want to do is convert any sequence of paragraphs into an unordered list (<ul>), with each paragraph converted into a list item (<li>). We’ll use group-adjacent to do that. Our stylesheet looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- for-each-group_group-adjacent.xsl --> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html" include-content-type="no"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head> <title>Grouping with group-adjacent</title> </head> <body style="font-family: sans-serif;"> <h1>Grouping with group-adjacent</h1> <xsl:for-each-group select="html/body/*" ...

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