Hi, Andy,



It's very possible. Here's one way.



First, here's your source XML snippet with an additional parent element (so 
that I could test):



<WRAPPER>
 <LIST_CREATION>
   <CREATION>
     <CREATION_DATE>03-OCT-07</CREATION_DATE>
   </CREATION>
 </LIST_CREATION>
 <LIST_NOTE>
   <NOTE>
     <OUT_NOTE>Blue Box</OUT_NOTE>
   </NOTE>
   <NOTE>
     <OUT_NOTE>Red Box</OUT_NOTE>
   </NOTE>
 </LIST_NOTE>
</WRAPPER>

And here's a transform that produces your desired output.



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">



 <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>



 <xsl:template match="*"/>



 <xsl:template match="WRAPPER">
   <xsl:apply-templates/>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="LIST_CREATION">

   <LIST_COMBINED>

     <COMBINED>

       <xsl:copy-of select="CREATION/CREATION_DATE"/>

       <xsl:copy-of select="../LIST_NOTE/NOTE[1]/OUT_NOTE"/>

     </COMBINED>

     <COMBINED>

       <xsl:copy-of select="../LIST_NOTE/NOTE[position() &gt; 
1]/OUT_NOTE"/>

     </COMBINED>

   </LIST_COMBINED>

 </xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>



I can think of other ways to do this (via apply-templates, for one), but 
this is one possible way.



I tested with Saxon 8.9.



Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
http://www.bryantcs.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Andy.Lewis@xxxxxxxxxxx>

To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:00 PM

Subject: [xsl] xml to xml mapping - how to combine two groups








Hello,



I have the following xml data:



<LIST_CREATION>
<CREATION>
<CREATION_DATE>03-OCT-07</CREATION_DATE>
</CREATION>
</LIST_CREATION>
<LIST_NOTE>
<NOTE>
<OUT_NOTE>Blue Box</OUT_NOTE>
</NOTE>
<NOTE>
<OUT_NOTE>Red Box</OUT_NOTE>
</NOTE>
</LIST_NOTE>


I need to map these into one grouping.
I would like the result to be something like:

<LIST_COMBINED>
<COMBINED>
<CREATION_DATE>03-OCT-07</CREATION_DATE>
<OUT_NOTE>Blue Box</OUT_NOTE>
</COMBINED>
<COMBINED>
<OUT_NOTE>Red Box</OUT_NOTE>
</COMBINED>
</LIST_COMBINED>

If this is possible, I would much appreciate some guidance!!



Thanks! Andy




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