Re: causal for each issue

hi The result of following for-each statement is <Depot/> and not as
exected. I could not find the mistake ! Here are the XSLT and the XML
file :

<xsl:for-each select="LDL"> <xsl:for-each
select="G2[1]/G502/(1st_Name,2nd_Name, 3nd_Name,4nd_Name, 5nd_Name)[.
=('FF')]">

This is an xpath syntax error as you can not start element names with
digits. had you used different names the filter .='FF' would mean the
for-each was iterating over a single element the 1st_Name element in the
first G2. That element only has text content ('FF') soo all the
following value-of would select nothing as they are selecting elements
(once they are fixed to use legal names)

<Depot> <xsl:value-of select="3rd_Logical"/> <xsl:value-of
select="2nd_Logical"/> <xsl:value-of select="3rd_Logical"/>
<xsl:value-of select="4th_Logical"/> <xsl:value-of
select="5th_Logical"/> <xsl:value-of select="6th_Logical"/> </Depot>
</xsl:for-each> </xsl:for-each> ********************** <LDL> <G2>
<G502>  <1st_Name>FF</1st_Name>

This is not well formed you can not start element names with a digit.
This will be a fatal error and XSLT will not start.

<2nd_Logical>MLBIE85</2nd_Logical> <3rd_Name>FW</3rd_Name>
<_4th_Logical>FW</_4th_Logical> <3rd_Logical>ENMST01</3rd_Logical>
<5th_Logical>USPTR05</5th_Logical> </G502> </G2> <G2> <G502>
<nd_Name>FF</2nd_Name> <2nd_Logical>ATVIE85</2nd_Logical>
<2nd_KNTT_Flag>0</2nd_KNTT_Flag> <3rd_Name>FW</3rd_Name>
<_4th_Logical>FW</_4th_Logical> <3rd_Logical>DEHAM05</3rd_Logical>
</G502> </G2> </LDL>

brg henry