well that was kool. your first xsl solved my problem.

i am very much interested in the second one but when i validate it give me 
the following error..

The character '<' cannot be used in an attribute value. Error processing 
resource 'file:///C:/grouping.xsl'. Line 32, Position 69 

       <xsl:for-each select=". | preceding-sibling::node[position() <= 
($group-size - 1)]">         
--------------------------------------------------------------------^


Thanks & Regards,
Kiran

"Mukul Gandhi" wrote:

> The following stylesheet can accept any group size..
> 
> You may run it as :
> msxsl file.xml file.xsl group-size=4
> (You may pass any value for group-size from the command line)
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?> 
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0">
>  
> <xsl:output method="text" /> 
> 
> <xsl:param name="group-size" select="3" />
>  
> <xsl:template match="/Parent">
>    <xsl:variable name="n" select="count(node) - (floor((count(node) div 
> $group-size)) * $group-size)" />
>    
>    <xsl:for-each select="node">
>      <xsl:if test="(position() mod $group-size) = 0">
>        group <xsl:value-of select="floor(position() div $group-size)" 
> /><xsl:text> - </xsl:text>
>        <xsl:for-each select=". | preceding-sibling::node[position() <= 
> ($group-size - 1)]">         
>          <xsl:value-of select="." /><xsl:if test="(position() mod 
> $group-size) != 0"><xsl:text>,</xsl:text></xsl:if>       
>        </xsl:for-each>
>        <xsl:text>
> </xsl:text>
>      </xsl:if> 
>      <xsl:if test="((position() = last()) and ((position() mod $group-size) 
> != 0))">
>        group <xsl:value-of select="floor(position() div $group-size) + 1" 
> /><xsl:text> - </xsl:text>
>        <xsl:for-each select=". | preceding-sibling::node[position() < $n]">
>          <xsl:value-of select="." /><xsl:if test="position() != 
> last()"><xsl:text>,</xsl:text></xsl:if> 
>        </xsl:for-each>
>        <xsl:text>
> </xsl:text>
>      </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>    
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Regards,
> Mukul
> 
> 
> "Kiran" wrote:
> 
> >  i have the following xml
> > 
> > <Parent>
> > 	<node>a</node>
> > 	<node>s</node>
> > 	<node>d</node>
> > 	<node>f</node>
> > 	<node>g</node>
> > 	<node>h</node>
> > 	<node>j</node>
> > 	<node>k</node>
> > 	<node>l</node>
> >  </Parent>
> > 
> > 
> > Need to print in following format (into groups of two)
> > 
> > group 1 - a,s
> > group 2 - d,f
> > group 3 - g,h
> > group 4 - j,k
> > group 5 - l
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Kiran