Merge adjacent sibling nodes with XSLT

Question

I have a question that caused me a terrible headache. Please help me. The input is:

 
 section 1 
 


        

Answer 1

The issue is that your XML isn't structured enough for a simple XSLT solution.

The different "section"s are not really setup in a way that is easy to extract them. If you have control over the input XML see if you can change it to something like this:

 
 section 1 
  
 some code 
  
 following code 
  
 following code 
 

 
 section 2
  
 other code 
  
 following code 
  
 following code 
 

 
 section 3
  
 still other code 
  
 following 
  
 following 
 

This will let you define a xsl-template for "section"s in which you can xsl-foreach over the "code" classes.