I wrote:
I think you probably need to do Muenchian grouping using a composite
key on name, type, and status.
See http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N4486.html
To spell it out more, something like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:key name="itemFromData" match="item" use="concat(name, '+', type, '+',
status)" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="/items/item[generate-id(.) =
generate-id(key('itemFromData', concat(name, '+', type, '+',
status))[1])]">
<xsl:apply-templates />
<br />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(., ' ')" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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