Thanks very much for the info.

Now I found out what my real problem is (I tried xsl:choose before
writing the first mail):

I have a xml like this:

<root>
   <item name="111">
      <subitem name="aaa">
      <subitem name="bbb">
   </item>....

I group the subitems but only want to output a item name once.
I want only one item output.

<xsl:for-each-group select="subitem" group-by="name">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()" //here I output
the name of the parent (item) but this should be only once for every
item.

bye bembi






On 5 Feb., 13:10, Pavel Lepin <p.le...@ctncorp.com> wrote:
> bbembi...@lycos.de <bbembi...@lycos.de> wrote in
> <8ba82eb2-d6b9-42db-bace-0b9bd5664...@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com>:
>
> > <xsl:for-each-group select="item" group-by="name">
> >    <xsl:if  test="contains(name, 'teststring11')">
> >       <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
> >    </xsl:if>
> >    <xsl:if  test="contains(name, 'teststring22')">
> >       <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
> >    </xsl:if>
> > </xsl:for-each-group>
>
> > This xslt is fine, but has 1 problem: I want to make a
> > "continue" in my if clauses. If the program walks into a
> > if clause it should go to the next for-each-group. I don't
> > want every if clause to be executed, only one.
>
> While <xsl:choose/> is clearly an option, you might want to
> consider the fact that specifying templates matching your
> groups is often a better option. Your example seems to be
> equivalent to:
>
>   <xsl:for-each-group select="item" group-by="name">
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
>   </xsl:for-each-group>
>
> ...but assuming you meant something like:
>
>   <xsl:for-each-group select="item" group-by="name">
>     <xsl:if test="contains(name,'teststring11')">
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"
>         mode="mode-11"/>
>     </xsl:if>
>     <xsl:if test="contains(name,'teststring22')">
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"
>         mode="mode-22"/>
>     </xsl:if>
>   </xsl:for-each-group>
>
> ...you might redesign that using just one template
> application and properly matching templates, such as:
>
>   <xsl:template match="item[contains(name,'teststring11')]>
>     <Stuff-11/>
>   </xsl:template>
>   <xsl:template match="item[contains(name,'teststring22')]>
>     <Stuff-22/>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> --
> When all you have is a transformation engine, everything
> looks like a tree.