Simple XSLT grouping

[mcgoo]

sorry for the simplicity of this question but I'm new to this... I want to do a simple transform where just copy the original document but group some of the child nodes under a common parent (called 'subchildren' in this example) in the output, basically:

From this:


<root>
<child>
_Value1
_Value2
_Value3
</child>
<child>
_Value4
_Value5
_Value6
</child>
</root>

To this:


<root>
<child>
<subchildren>
_Value1
_Value2
_Value3
</subchildren>
</child>
<child>
<subchildren>
_Value4
_Value5
_Value6
</subchildren>
</child>
</root>

whats the best way to accomplish this? thank you in advance

[rpgfan3233]

Well, root and child are pretty straightforward. As for subchildren, you just add an element if there are sub elements that are children of child elements:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:element name="root">
<xsl:for-each select="root/child">
<xsl:element name="child">
<xsl:if test="name(*) = 'sub'">
<xsl:element name="subchildren">
<xsl:for-each select="sub">
<xsl:element name="sub">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

[mcgoo]

hmm, its looks like this part isn't correct for what I'm trying to do:

<xsl:if test="name(*) = 'sub'">
<xsl:element name="subchildren">
<xsl:for-each select="sub">
<xsl:element name="sub">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>

maybe i should have given more details, because it worked with the example I provided, but I should have been more specific. The <subs> nodes aren't the only children of <child> they're just the ones I want to group. In reality it looks more like this:

<root>
<child>
<element1>avalue</element1>
<element2>anothervalue</element2>
<element3>yetanothervalue</element3>
_Value1
_Value2
_Value3
</child>
<child>
<element1>avalue2</element1>
<element2>anothervalue2</element2>
<element3>yetanothervalue2</element3>
_Value4
_Value5
_Value6
</child>
</root>

[rpgfan3233]

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:element name="root">
<xsl:for-each select="root/child">
<xsl:element name="child">
<xsl:for-each select="*[name(.) != 'sub']">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:element name="subchildren">
<xsl:for-each select="*[name(.) = 'sub']">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
That one should work better for you. ^_^

[mcgoo]

yes that does it! thank you for your help.