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 You are not getting your attributes in output because the expressions you think should refer to those attributes (e.g. <xsl:value-of select="@ENCODINGANALOG"/>) are not evaluating the way you are expecting. A little study of how XPath expressions are evaluated, in particular the notion of the "context node", would help you a great deal. When you say ... the context node for the expression "@ENCODINGANALOG" is the C02 node you have selected in the for-each (i.e. the node you are currently processing among the set of C02 elements in the document, //C02). Since no C02 elements have @ENCODINGANALOG attributes, you get none in your output (the node set selected by the value-of instruction is empty). Try <xsl:value-of select=".//PERSNAME[@ENCODINGANALOG='100$a']@ENCODINGANALOG"/> and you'll get what you want. But in my experience a beginner's failure to grasp the notion of the context node for XPath often comes in the context of a soft understanding of XSLT's preferred mode of operating, i.e. through templates -- the famous "push" approach to stylesheets vs. the "pull" method which tends to rely much more heavily on xsl:for-each. Your case is certainly one in which a template-based solution would work way better than what you have, since then the context node changes with each template -- meaning you don't have to force it (a strategy which may be exigent, but will soon fail on you in other cases when your data is less regular). So try: <TBODY>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//C02"/>
<!-- there's probably a better way than to select all C02 components
from the root, but for now ... -->
</TBODY>
...<xsl:template match="C02">
<TR>
<xsl:apply-templates select=".//PERSNAME[@ENCODINGANALOG='100$a']"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select=".//PERSNAME[@ENCODINGANALOG='700$a']"/>
</TR>
</xsl:template><xsl:template match="PERSNAME">
<TD>
<FONT size="+3">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</FONT>
<xsl:text>     : </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="@ENCODINGANALOG"/>
</TD>
</xsl:template>If you are unclear on why this works, what you need to research is template-based processing, and the concept of the context node for the evaluation of XPaths. Mike Kay's book is excellent; I'm also liking Bob DuCharme's "XSL Quickly" for beginners. Happy holidays! Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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