"Gerald Sheehan" <GeraldSheehan@d...> wrote in message 
news:11A0A01F-7FC0-4172-B280-7BABCAC0EB44@m......
> Hi Tom,
>
> Change one line from:
>
> <xsl:template match="address">
>
> To:
>
> <xsl:template match="/addresses">
>
> Should do the trick for you!

Great.

Worked perfectly whether I used 2 templates (tag and section/tag) or one 
template(tag|section/tag).

Why was it creating 2 roots in my setup?

Also, do you know why were the indents not working completely?

Thanks,

Tom

>
> 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
>>
>>
>>