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Hello Guy: The reason why we are trying this again and again is the end use for a project. What we are trying to do is amalgamate two nodes from the XML document which may be named <url> and <id>. In the xsl doc, we wanted to create the xlink with the Xpointer http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin?ID123 Out of the input tree of <url>http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin</url> and <id>?ID123</id> <The_BIG PROBLEM> I know how to do this based on 1 input tree node pattern, however, we are dealing with a dynamically generated XML document from our engine which may output between zero and one thousand tree branches based on previous user input. Therefore, we have to use the <xsl:for-each> in the XSL document. This seemingly is harmless enough but the beautiful designers at Microsoft have thrown a damper on our party by not allowing us to use: <xsl:for-each select="root_tag/next_tag"> > <xsl:template match="someTag"> > <a> > <xsl:attribute name="href"> > <xsl:value-of select=".[@file]" /> > </xsl:attribute> > <xsl:value-of /> > </a> > </xsl:template> </xsl:for-each> We tried this in hundred's of variations and finally resorted to using a scripting language to manipulate the data and assemble the completed link by accessing the node values and joining them together into the correct <href="url+id">Buy one now</a> This is currently unsatisfactory and there is high I/O overhead and other inherent problems. I know we aren't the first to try this. My next step is to investigate the possibility of using the MS XML-DOM to facilitate a solution. *sigh* back to the ole drawing board. It's really eating into my snowboarding time and that's annoying me. Duane Nickull cartnetwork.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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