roac@p... (Joris Gillis) wrote in message news:<a402073b.0410041020.6befbf45@p...>...
> > I am wishing to apply a template to the following XML.  There are
> > multiple event nodes within the register root node.  For each of the
> > event nodes there are a list of students taking the Event.  I wish to
> > apply a template (and thus get the data) for the same student across
> > the events.  I can apply the template to student 18 for event 1, how
> > do i then get the data for student 18 from event 2 and then for event
> > 3 and so on?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think this might be a way to the solution of your problem.
> 
> <xsl:key name="students" match="student/code" use="."/>
>   
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//student[generate-id(code) =
> generate-id(key('students',code))]">
> <xsl:sort select="name"/>
> </xsl:apply-templates>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="student">
> student name: <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//event[student/code=current()/code]"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="event">
> event: <xsl:value-of select="code"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> this code produces:
> 
> student name: Janet Bloggs
> event: 1
> event: 2
> student name: Joe Bloggs
> event: 1
> event: 2
> 
> Is this useful?
> 
> 
>    Joris Gillis

Many thanks to both of you for your help - I believe that this will work.
David