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 Thanks very much for the links to command line XML (etc.) utilities. I've installed and played with the XMLStarlet one (mainly because its not Java!) However, something a bit weird is going on: I have an XML document with the following structure: <index> <item> <title>...</title> <author>...</author> <pages>nn</pages> </item> <item> <title>...</title> <author>...</author> <pages>nn</pages> </item> .... </index> Its just an index of a bunch of pieces of sheet music in PDF format. The 'pages' element stores the number of pages each piece is presented on. What I wanted to do was make a 'Contents' page for presenting the pieces in a booklet format. It just lists the pieces in alphbetical order and calculates and displays which page they should start on. I used two stylesheets; one just sorts the source document and passes its result to the second, which makes the contents page, and looks like this: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="..."> <xsl:output method="html" /> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <h3>Collection</h3> <hr /> <table border="0" cellspacing="3" width="100%"> <xsl:apply-templates select="//item" /> </table> <hr /> </body> </html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="item"> <tr> <td><xsl:value-of select="position()" /></td> <xsl:apply-templates /> </tr> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="title"> <td><xsl:apply-templates /></td> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="author"> <td><xsl:apply-templates /></td> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="pages"> <td align="right"><xsl:value-of select="sum(preceding::pages) + 1" /></td> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Does this look like it should work? (particularly the match="pages" template) It didn't work with the parser I normally use (Sablatron 1.0); it seems that 'sum(preceding::pages)' was always 1 less that it should be. But when I tried the stylesheet (unaltered) using XMLStarlet it produced exactly the correct output! Whats going on?! Cheers, Richard XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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