I actually wrote the escaped sequence for special characters everywhere(i.e. 
for angle bracket etc).. But it appeared here as <= .. Please replace such 
characters by their escape meanings. You can see the details at -
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#syntax

Regards,
Mukul

"Kiran" wrote:

> 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