Cheers,
Wendell

Hi Greg,
...If you have a big file, this will take a lot of time. If all <media_item>s
are on the same level, you can change it to

<xsl:value-of select="/root/any_other_nodes/media_item[...]..."/>

Still better is using a DTD and set your identifier-attribute (or shorter
id) to ID:

<!ATTLIST media_item identifier ID #REQUIRED>

And using now the id()-function will speed up the transformation:

<xsl:value-of select="id(media_ref/@media_alias)/access_name"/>

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