Okay I reposted this so that perhaps now it can display properly.


This may be an answer or a help to the following I found at Altova Mailing
List Archives entitled, "select immediately following siblings with
constraints"
http://www.altova.com/list/xsl-list/200602/msg1000146300.html
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Problem: Select immediate following siblings with constraints.
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Theory solution: use the xsl:generate-id() function on the node that preceeds
the following siblings you want to select.  Have the following siblings copy
that id.
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Working solution:  The following two xsl stylesheets (convert.xsl and
convertstage2.xsl) put the v nodes belonging to its' chapter into the
bookChapter node (after bookChapter was changed into a chapter node).  The
generate-id() function was not needed because the bookChapter node already has
unique information.
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The demo.xml follows:
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&#lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>&#lt;?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
href="demo.xsl"?>
&#lt;rootNode>
&#lt;titleTop>Isaiah&#lt;/titleTop>
&#lt;title>The Book of the Prophet Isaiah&#lt;/title>
&#lt;bookChapter>Chapter 1&#lt;/bookChapter>
&#lt;overview>Judah's rebellion -- Promises and threatenings.&#lt;/overview>
&#lt;v>1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
Judah.&#lt;/v>
&#lt;v>2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken; I
have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against
me.&#lt;/v>
&#lt;bookChapter>Chapter 2&#lt;/bookChapter>
&#lt;overview>The coming of Christ's kingdom -- Effects of God's
majesty.&#lt;/overview>
&#lt;v>1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem.&#lt;/v>
&#lt;v>2 And it shall come to pass in the last days when the mountain of the
Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be
exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it;&#lt;/v>
&#lt;bookChapter>Chapter 3&#lt;/bookChapter>
&#lt;overview>The sin of the people -- The oppression of the rulers -- The
judgments for pride.&#lt;/overview>
&#lt;v>1 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from
Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread, and
the whole stay of water,&#lt;/v>
&#lt;v>2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and
the prudent, and the ancient,&#lt;/v>
&#lt;/rootNode>
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The following are the commands (demo.sh) used to make the final document:
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find . -iname "demo.xml" -exec sed -i "s@xxxxxxxx@c...@g" {} ';'

xsltproc demo.xml -o demo.xml --norman

find . -iname "demo.xml" -exec sed -i "s@&#lt;?xml version=\"1.0\"
encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>@&#lt;?xml version=\"1.0\"
encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>&#lt;?xml-stylesheet type=\"text/xsl\"
href=\"convertstage2.xsl\"?>@g" {} ';'

xsltproc demo.xml -o demo.xml --norman

#the following sed command removes space at the beginning of lines:
sed -i 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//' demo.xml;
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The convert.xsl follows:
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&#lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
&#lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

&#lt;xsl:output method="xml" indent="no" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"/>

&#lt;xsl:template match="*">
&#lt;xsl:copy>&#lt;xsl:value-of select="."/>&#lt;/xsl:copy>
&#lt;/xsl:template>

&#lt;xsl:template match="v">
&#lt;xsl:copy>&#lt;temporaryNode>&#lt;xsl:value-of
select="substring-after(preceding-sibling::bookChapter[1],'
')"/>&#lt;/temporaryNode>&#lt;xsl:value-of select="."/>&#lt;/xsl:copy>
&#lt;/xsl:template>

&#lt;xsl:template match="/rootNode/bookChapter">
&#lt;chapter>
&#lt;number>&#lt;xsl:value-of select="substring-after(.,' ')"/>&#lt;/number>
&#lt;overview>&#lt;xsl:value-of
select="following-sibling::overview[1]"/>&#lt;/overview>
&#lt;/chapter>
&#lt;/xsl:template>

&#lt;xsl:template match="/">
&#lt;rootNode>&#lt;xsl:apply-templates
select="/rootNode/titleTop|/rootNode/title|/rootNode/bookChapter|rootNode/v"/
>&#lt;/rootNode>
&#lt;/xsl:template>
&#lt;/xsl:stylesheet>
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The convertstage2.xsl follows:
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&#lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
&#lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

&#lt;xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"/>

&#lt;xsl:key name="verses" match="v" use="temporaryNode"/>

&#lt;xsl:template match="*">
&#lt;xsl:copy>&#lt;xsl:value-of select="."/>&#lt;/xsl:copy>
&#lt;/xsl:template>

&#lt;xsl:template match="/rootNode/chapter">
&#lt;xsl:copy>&#lt;xsl:apply-templates/>
&#lt;!--The node()[2] in the following line restores the original content
because node()[1] is the temporary node used for identification (this line
works the quickest).-->
&#lt;xsl:for-each select="key('verses',
current()/number[1])">&#lt;v>&#lt;xsl:value-of
select="./node()[2]"/>&#lt;/v>&#lt;/xsl:for-each>

&#lt;!--The following line works also. [position()!=1] is used to restore the
original content which works with more than one node.-->
&#lt;!--&#lt;xsl:for-each
select="following-sibling::v[child::ch=current()/number[1]]">&#lt;v>&#lt;xsl:
copy-of
select="current()/node()[position()!=1]"/>&#lt;/v>&#lt;/xsl:for-each>-->
&#lt;/xsl:copy>
&#lt;/xsl:template>

&#lt;xsl:template match="/">
&#lt;rootNode>&#lt;xsl:apply-templates
select="/rootNode/titleTop|/rootNode/title|/rootNode/chapter"/>&#lt;/rootNode
>
&#lt;/xsl:template>
&#lt;/xsl:stylesheet>
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Final result follows (v nodes have been moved into chapter nodes):
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&#lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
&#lt;rootNode>
&#lt;titleTop>Isaiah&#lt;/titleTop>
&#lt;title>The Book of the Prophet Isaiah&#lt;/title>
&#lt;chapter>
&#lt;number>1&#lt;/number>
&#lt;overview>Judah's rebellion -- Promises and threatenings.&#lt;/overview>
&#lt;v>1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
Judah.&#lt;/v>
&#lt;v>2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken; I
have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against
me.&#lt;/v>
&#lt;/chapter>
&#lt;chapter>
&#lt;number>2&#lt;/number>
&#lt;overview>The coming of Christ's kingdom -- Effects of God's
majesty.&#lt;/overview>
&#lt;v>1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem.&#lt;/v>
&#lt;v>2 And it shall come to pass in the last days when the mountain of the
Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be
exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it;&#lt;/v>
&#lt;/chapter>
&#lt;chapter>
&#lt;number>3&#lt;/number>
&#lt;overview>The sin of the people -- The oppression of the rulers -- The
judgments for pride.&#lt;/overview>
&#lt;v>1 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from
Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread, and
the whole stay of water,&#lt;/v>
&#lt;v>2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and
the prudent, and the ancient,&#lt;/v>
&#lt;/chapter>
&#lt;/rootNode>
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Note:  I don't know how to make it work with a single xsl file yet.
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libxslt 1.1.20 was used.
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