Hi Tom,

Change one line from:

<xsl:template match="address">

To:

<xsl:template match="/addresses">

Should do the trick for you!

I just checked this in XMLSpy,  
(http://www.altova.com/products/xmlspy/xml_editor.html), and got the results 
you're looking for.

-- 
Best regards,

... Jerry Sheehan
... http://www.xmlscoop.com




"tshad" wrote:

> I am having problems with an xml file that has 2 different types of 
> structures:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>    <addresses>
>        <address>
>            <tag name="street">One Microsoft Way</tag>
>        </address>
>       <address>
>           <section Comp="1">
>                 <tag name="street">15 Mako Place</tag>
>           </section>
>       </address>
> </addresses>
> 
> There is addresses/address/tag and address/address/section/tag.
> 
> The xlst file is:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>    <xsl:template match="address">
>        <dataset>
>            <xsl:apply-templates/>
>        </dataset>
>    </xsl:template>
>  <xsl:template match="tag">
>        <address>
>            <sectionNumber>
>                0
>            </sectionNumber>
>           <name>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
>             </name>
>             <value>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>             </value>
>        </address>
>  </xsl:template>
>  <xsl:template match="section/tag">
>        <address>
>           <sectionNumber>
>                <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::section/@Comp"/>
>          </sectionNumber>
>           <name>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
>             </name>
>             <value>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>             </value>
>        </address>
>  </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> If my xml had only one or the other types it would work fine.  But with this 
> one I get 2 roots.
> 
> What do I have to change to give me only one root (dataset) instead of 2?
> 
> The resulting xml file is:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM437"?>
>         <dataset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>                 <address><sectionNumber>
>                                 0
>                         </sectionNumber><name>street</name><value>One 
> Microsoft
> Way</value></address>
>         </dataset>
>         <dataset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
> 
>                 <address><sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber><name>street</name><val
> ue>15 Mako Place</value></address>
> 
>         </dataset>
> 
> If you look at it with the indents (not sure why it doesn't indent properly 
> as I have indent set to yes.  Also you'll notice that the sectionNumber that 
> I have hardcoded to 0 indents and the other one doesn't.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM437"?>
>         <dataset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>                 <address>
>                         <sectionNumber>
>                                 0
>                         </sectionNumber>
>                         <name>street</name>
>                         <value>One Microsoft Way</value>
>                  </address>
>         </dataset>
>         <dataset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>                 <address>
>                          <sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber>
>                          <name>street</name>
>                          <value>15 Mako Place</value>
>                 </address>
>         </dataset>
> 
> What I really want it to look like is following (without the second 
> dataset).
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM437"?>
>         <dataset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>                 <address>
>                         <sectionNumber>
>                                 0
>                         </sectionNumber>
>                         <name>street</name>
>                         <value>One Microsoft Way</value>
>                  </address>
>                 <address>
>                          <sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber>
>                          <name>street</name>
>                          <value>15 Mako Place</value>
>                 </address>
>         </dataset>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom 
> 
> 
>