elements

Simply, I have an xml file, which has a list of elements such as:

<elements>
  <element>
    <name>xyz</name>
    <id>1234</id>
    <description>some text</description>
  </element>
  <element>
    <name>xyz</name>
    <id>1234</id>
    <description>some other text</description>
  </element>
</elements>

What I'd like to do, is end up grouping them together based on the name
and ID, via a <UL>, so the output would be something like:

*xyz - 1234
    *Some Text
    *Some other text

I'm pretty sure I either need to do something w/ a nested loop, or a
recursive call, but I'm just unfamilliar w/ xslt (I'm hacking something
together since yesterday).  Any suggestions on where to start?

i was thinking (pseudo code in c/c# syntax)

for (int i = 0; i > elements.size; i++)
{
  for (int j = 0; j > elements.size; j++)
  {
    // have we found a sub-item
    if(elements[i].name == elements[j].name)
    {
      //Have we set up the base element?
     if(baseElementDefined[elements[i].name] != true)
     {
        AddBaseElement();
     }
     AddSubElement();
    }
  }
}

THis will work, but obviously is outside the paradigm of xslt
(nevermind the syntax).

I'm just stuck, and looking for a little guidance.  Thanks

elements

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