Re: How to do this without updating a variable?

> Yeah this is much more elegant. A useful way to thing
> about this problem (for me atleast) is to think that
> the datastructure is already there, to create the
> output I just have to traverse it based on what
> information I need. Slowly, I'm getting used to this
> new way of thinking ...

That's a reasonable view of how XSLT works. That's why it's very handy to 
define one's output format first and then think about plucking the data 
from the source XML to fill in the output.

> Thanks to Jay and Mukul for additional help.

My pleasure.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)