Same as here , use the identifier of the first previous brother, whose name is different for grouping records:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:key name="adjacentByName" match="foo/*" use="generate-id(preceding-sibling::*[not(name()=name(current()))][1])" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<foo><s>
<xsl:for-each select="foo/*[generate-id()=generate-id(key('adjacentByName', generate-id(preceding-sibling::*[not(name()=name(current()))][1]))[1])]">
<s>
<xsl:for-each select="key('adjacentByName', generate-id(preceding-sibling::*[not(name()=name(current()))][1]))">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</s>
</xsl:for-each>
</s></foo>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Added:
But the conclusion that I get is not the same as my desired result ...
When applied to your (cleaned) input:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>
<bar>bar</bar>
<bar>bar</bar>
<foobar>foobar</foobar>
<foobar>foobar</foobar>
<foobar>foobar</foobar>
<bar>bar</bar>
<bar>bar</bar>
</foo>
result:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<foo>
<s>
<s>
<bar>bar</bar>
<bar>bar</bar>
</s>
<s>
<foobar>foobar</foobar>
<foobar>foobar</foobar>
<foobar>foobar</foobar>
</s>
<s>
<bar>bar</bar>
<bar>bar</bar>
</s>
</s>
</foo>
, :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>
<s>
<s>
<bar>bar</bar>
<bar>bar</bar>
</s>
<s>
<foobar>foobar></foobar>
<foobar>foobar></foobar>
<foobar>foobar></foobar>
</s>
<s>
<bar>bar</bar>
<bar>bar</bar>
</s>
</s>
</foo>
> <foobar>, .
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P.S. .