I have received, what I consider to be, a badly designed xml file:
<data>
<block/>
<item> One</item>
<item> Two</item>
<block/>
<item> One</item>
<item> Two</item>
<item> Three</item>
<block/>
<item> One</item>
</data>
I want to turn this into a more normal form to make it easier to manage:
<data>
<block>
<item> One</item>
<item> Two</item>
</block>
<block>
<item> One</item>
<item> Two</item>
<item> Three</item>
</block>
<block>
<item> One</item>
</block>
</data>
In December there was a thread on doing this efficiently with huge source
xml documents. Look for the thread "Unbounded element
grouping/concatenation"
The optimized solution can be found here:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/xsl-list/1913969
with some minor corrections in the last messages of the thread.
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
FXSL developer
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html
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