Your XML is invalid of course (try it in Marrowsoft Xselerator) but the
following should help you (an identity transform with template override for
the <root> node).

This XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
 <SidebarText1>Some Text</SidebarText1>
 <SidebarMedia1>some media.jpg</SidebarMedia1>
</root>

with this XSLT:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="utf-16" />
 <!-- Identity transform, passes nodes through untouched -->
 <xsl:template match="@*|node()|text()">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()|text()" />
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
 <!-- Match the root tag and add a new element with the children as children
of the new node -->
 <xsl:template match="root">
  <xsl:element name="{name(.)}">
   <SideBar>
    <!-- Now add all children of the root node to this new node -->
    <xsl:copy-of select="./*"/>
   </SideBar>
  </xsl:element>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Gives:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<root>
 <SideBar>
  <SidebarText1>Some Text</SidebarText1>
  <SidebarMedia1>some media.jpg</SidebarMedia1>
 </SideBar>
</root>

Chris.

"Joe" <josephf@l...> wrote in message
news:fad90cce.0403031055.5bc75d13@p......
Hi,
I'm new to xsl, and I was wondering if someone knows how to change:

<tag1>
<tag2>
<SidebarText1>Some Text</SidebarText1>
<SidebarMedia1>some media.jpg</SidebarMedia1>
... (other tags starting with Sidebar)
<tag3>
<tag4>


into

<tag1>
<tag2>
<Sidebar>
    <SidebarText1>Some Text</SidebarText1>
    <SidebarMedia1>some media.jpg</SidebarMedia1>
    ... (other tags starting with Sidebar)
</Sidebar>
<tag3>
<tag4>


ie. Take all tags starting with Sidebar and moving them as children of
a generic tag called Sidebar.


Thanks,
Joe Finnamore