Greg,
Thanks again!  That did it.

Now I have my xsl all worked out to convert the source file into csv.

I now want to transform the source XML into a new XML.
What I want to do is to flatten the XML file, quite similar to the CSV.

The snippet below is the xsl I used to transform the source XML to CSV 
(thanks toDave McMahon and you!)
How do I copy the tags? (elements?)
Do I have to wite them out as text or is there a simpler way?
In the snippet below, the price should appear as 
<MapPrice>2323.34</MAPPrice>

I wish I knew XSL/XPath better.  It is such a struggle. I keep trying to 
relate it to SQL and perhaps that is the problem.

Thanks in advance
Habib

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 <xsl:template match="smbxml/response/inventoryItem">
  <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="@handle"/>
  <xsl:text>","</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
  <xsl:text>","</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="displayName"/>
  <xsl:text>","</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="itemPriceList/itemPriceLine[itemPriceTypeRef/name='MAP 
Price']/itemPrice"/>
<xsl:text>","</xsl:text>
...

 </xsl:template>




"Greg Collins [Microsoft MVP]" <gcollins_AT_msn_DOT_com> wrote in message 
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Elements and Attributes are not allowed to have spaces in their name. The 
spaces you are encountering are part of an attribute VALUE.

You need something like this:

<xsl:value-of select="customFieldValues/customFieldValue[@name='Item Part 
Number']"/>


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