"urug haiml" <taisto69@h...> wrote in message 
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> Hello
>
> I have a problem with my xsl-transforming because my xml-data is not well
> structured. Unfortunately it cant be changed. My data looks like this:
>
> <schedule>
>    <day>monday</day>
>    <job>dishes</job>
>    <job>clean</job>
>    <job>...</job>
>    <day>Tuesday</day>
>    <job>wipe</job>
>    <job>....</job>
>    <day>Wednesday</job>
>    <job>...</job>
>    ....
> </schedule>
>
> Is there a way to pick jobs, for example monday from between the day-tags
> monday & tuesday.

This transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

 <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:key name="kJobs" match="job" use="preceding-sibling::day[1]"/>

 <xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:for-each select="*/day">
     <xsl:value-of select="concat(.,'&#xA;')"/>
     <xsl:for-each select="key('kJobs', .)">
       <xsl:value-of select="concat('  ',.,'&#xA;')"/>
     </xsl:for-each>
   </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when applied to the following source.xml:

<schedule>
    <day>monday</day>
    <job>dishes</job>
    <job>clean</job>
    <job>learn</job>
    <day>Tuesday</day>
    <job>wipe</job>
    <job>task22</job>
    <day>Wednesday</day>
    <job>task31</job>
    <job>task32</job>
    <day>Thursday</day>
    <job>task41</job>
    <job>task42</job>
    <day>Friday</day>
    <job>task51</job>
    <job>task52</job>
    <day>Saturday</day>
    <job>task61</job>
    <job>task62</job>
    <day>Sunday</day>
    <job>task71</job>
    <job>task72</job>
</schedule>

produces the wanted result:

monday
  dishes
  clean
  learn
Tuesday
  wipe
  task22
Wednesday
  task31
  task32
Thursday
  task41
  task42
Friday
  task51
  task52
Saturday
  task61
  task62
Sunday
  task71
  task72


Hope this helped.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev