Given the input XML
<FlightOptions>
<item>
<Fares>
<item>
<FareClass>T</FareClass>
<Fare>100</Fare>
<FareType>E</FareType>
<Seats>5</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>Y</FareClass>
<Fare>200</Fare>
<FareType>E</FareType>
<Seats>10</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>R</FareClass>
<Fare>250</Fare>
<FareType>E</FareType>
<Seats>20</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>N</FareClass>
<Fare>100</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>5</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>M</FareClass>
<Fare>200</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>50</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>L</FareClass>
<Fare>300</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>20</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>K</FareClass>
<Fare>400</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>5</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>E</FareClass>
<Fare>500</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>9</Seats>
</item>
</Fares>
<Flight>
<FlightNumber>YY232</FlightNumber>
<Origin>JFK</Origin>
<Destination>LHR</Destination>
<DepTime>1300</DepTime>
<ArrTime>2000</ArrTime>
</Flight>
</item>
</FlightOptions>
and applying the XSL template (Thanks Tim C for providing this!) -
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="Fares">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="item">
<xsl:sort select="FareType"/>
<xsl:sort select="Fare"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Fares/item">
<xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::item[FareType=current()/FareType][Seats > 9])">
<xsl:call-template name="identity"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Seats[. > 9]">
<xsl:copy>9</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:call-template name="identity"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="identity">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
We get the following output XML -
<FlightOptions>
<item>
<Fares>
<item>
<FareClass>T</FareClass>
<Fare>100</Fare>
<FareType>E</FareType>
<Seats>5</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>Y</FareClass>
<Fare>200</Fare>
<FareType>E</FareType>
<Seats>9</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>R</FareClass>
<Fare>250</Fare>
<FareType>E</FareType>
<Seats>9</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>N</FareClass>
<Fare>100</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>5</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>M</FareClass>
<Fare>200</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>9</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>L</FareClass>
<Fare>300</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>9</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>K</FareClass>
<Fare>400</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>5</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>E</FareClass>
<Fare>500</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>9</Seats>
</item>
</Fares>
<Flight>
<FlightNumber>YY232</FlightNumber>
<Origin>JFK</Origin>
<Destination>LHR</Destination>
<DepTime>1300</DepTime>
<ArrTime>2000</ArrTime>
</Flight>
</item>
</FlightOptions>
What i'd like to do with the above output is to replace the FareClass tags with letters of the alphabet in sequence (A,B,C,D...) in the order each item gets selected. In addition, i'd like to leave the G and Y FareClass unchanged. [In case you have questions on the XML/XSL, I'd asked question #8074924 which was solved by Tim C.]
The output XML needs to look like:
<FlightOptions>
<item>
<Fares>
<item>
<FareClass>A</FareClass>
<Fare>100</Fare>
<FareType>E</FareType>
<Seats>5</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>Y</FareClass>
<Fare>200</Fare>
<FareType>E</FareType>
<Seats>10</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>B</FareClass>
<Fare>250</Fare>
<FareType>E</FareType>
<Seats>20</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>N</FareClass>
<Fare>100</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>5</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>C</FareClass>
<Fare>200</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>50</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>D</FareClass>
<Fare>300</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>20</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>E</FareClass>
<Fare>400</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>5</Seats>
</item>
<item>
<FareClass>F</FareClass>
<Fare>500</Fare>
<FareType>F</FareType>
<Seats>9</Seats>
</item>
</Fares>
<Flight>
<FlightNumber>YY232</FlightNumber>
<Origin>JFK</Origin>
<Destination>LHR</Destination>
<DepTime>1300</DepTime>
<ArrTime>2000</ArrTime>
</Flight>
</item>
</FlightOptions>