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From: Larry <dontmewithme@---.-->
To: NULL
Date: 4/1/2005 3:27:00 AM
Hello everybody,

               I am really getting into XML and XSL as well. 
Unfortunately I'm still a newbie and would need you guys to tell me how 
to go about parsing this file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<collection>
 <cd>
  <title>Fight for your mind</title>
  <artist>Ben Harper</artist>
  <year>1995</year>
 </cd>
 <cd>
  <title>Electric Ladyland</title>
  <artist>Jimi Hendrix</artist>
  <year>1997</year>
 </cd>
 <cd>
  <title>Rubber Soul</title>
  <artist>The Beatles</artist>
  <year>1965</year>
 </cd>
 <cd>
  <title>Revolver</title>
  <artist>The Beatles</artist>
  <year>1966</year>
 </cd>
 <cd>
  <title>White Album</title>
  <artist>The Beatles</artist>
  <year>1966</year>
 </cd>
</collection>

I'd like (by using XSLT) to have a response xml file like this:

<collection>
 <cd>
  <title>Revolver</title>
  <artist>The Beatles</artist>
  <year>1966</year>
 </cd>
 <cd>
  <title>White Album</title>
  <artist>The Beatles</artist>
  <year>1966</year>
 </cd>
</collection>

I read up on XSL and found that I might go about parsing my catalog.xml 
file as follow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">

 <collection>
 
   <xsl:for-each select="collection/cd/[artist text() = 'The Beatles' 
and year text() = '1966']">
    <cd>
  
     <title><xsl:value-of select="title"/></title>
     <artist><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></artist>
     <year><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></year>
     
    </cd>
   </xsl:for-each>

 </collection>
 
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

...as you can see I made up this code and it didn't work at all...that's 
why I badly need your help to get it working!

(If I were to do it by using sql I would say: [select title, artist, 
year from collection/cd where artist = 'The Beatles' and year = '1996'])

any help would be appreciated...thanks ever so much!


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