Hi XSLers,
I'm curious if there is a more elegant way to use a sequence
expression to process two adjacent elements at a time. With XSLT 1.0
I would have used recursion, but with XSLT/XPath 2.0 I'm wondering if
I can exploit sequences. Below is something I've come up with so far.
An interesting side note, I thought the sequence expression would
error because of divide by zero, but it appears to be side effect
free, at least with Saxon.
INPUT
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pairs>
<Abbott />
<Costello />
<Amos />
<Andy />
<George />
<Gracie />
<Einstein />
</pairs>
XSLT
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/pairs">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:for-each select="for $i in 1 to (count(*) idiv 2 +
(count(*) mod 2)) return *[($i*2)-1]">
<pair>
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
<xsl:copy-of select="./following-sibling::*[1]" />
</pair>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
--
John Cavalieri
john(_dot_)cavalieri(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
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