Tracy wrote:

> I need to transform one xml to another xml. I found out that I only transformed the first level nodes out. The second, third etc node were not selected out. Can you help figure it out ? Thanks in advance!!
> 
> The start xml file is :
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><books><book fullname="ItalyBook" country ="Italy" author = "Author Italy"> ItalyBook
>      <book fullname = "USABook" country ="USA" author = "Author USA"> USABook </book></book><book fullname="JapanBook" country ="China" author = "Author Japan">JapanBook</book><book fullname="FranceBook" country ="China" author = "Author  France">FranceBook</book></books>

Trying to understand what the XML looks like I have added some 
formatting, I have now got

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<books>
   <book fullname="ItalyBook" country ="Italy" author = "Author Italy"> 
ItalyBook
     <book fullname = "USABook" country ="USA" author = "Author USA"> 
USABook </book>
   </book>
   <book fullname="JapanBook" country ="China" author = "Author 
Japan">JapanBook</book>
   <book fullname="FranceBook" country ="China" author = "Author 
France">FranceBook</book>
</books>

I am not sure I understand why the <book> elements can be nested but 
maybe the result or the stylesheet let me understand that.

> The expected output xml:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><books><book fullname="ItalyBook" country="Italy" author="Author Italy"> ItalyBook 
>    <book fullname="USABook" country="USA" author="Author USA">USABook
>    </book></book><book fullname="JapanBook" country="China" author="Author Japan">JapanBook</book><book fullname="FranceBook" country="China" author="Author France">FranceBook</book></books>

Again that needs formatting to make it readable:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<books>
   <book fullname="ItalyBook" country="Italy" author="Author Italy"> 
ItalyBook
     <book fullname="USABook" country="USA" author="Author 
USA">USABook</book>
   </book>
   <book fullname="JapanBook" country="China" author="Author 
Japan">JapanBook</book>
   <book fullname="FranceBook" country="China" author="Author 
France">FranceBook</book>
</books>

but now I wonder what the difference between the source and the intended 
result is. Is there one? I don't see it.

> My xslt file:
> xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'><xsl:template match = "/books"><TREENODES><xsl:for-each select = "book"><treenode><xsl:attribute name="Text"><xsl:value-of select="@fullname" /></xsl:attribute></treenode><xsl:for-each select ="book/book"><treenode><xsl:attribute name = "Text"><xsl:value-of select = "@fullname"/></xsl:attribute></treenode></xsl:for-each></xsl:for-each></TREENODES></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>

Again applying some formatting I get

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
version='1.0'>

<xsl:template match = "/books">
   <TREENODES>
     <xsl:for-each select = "book">
       <treenode>
         <xsl:attribute name="Text"><xsl:value-of select="@fullname" 
/></xsl:attribute>
       </treenode>
       <xsl:for-each select ="book/book">
         <treenode><xsl:attribute name = "Text"><xsl:value-of select = 
"@fullname"/></xsl:attribute>
         </treenode>
       </xsl:for-each>
     </xsl:for-each>
   </TREENODES>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

and it is clear that you haven't provided the desired output as there 
are literal result elements <treenode> in the stylesheet but in the 
desired output.

I guess form the stylesheet that you want to transform the <books> list 
into a <TREENODES> list and each <book> element into a <treenode> 
element. That is done with the following stylesheet

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
version='1.0'>

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />

<xsl:template match="books">
   <TREENODES>
     <xsl:apply-templates />
   </TREENODES>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="book">
   <treenode text="{@fullname}">
     <xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
   </treenode>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

which yields the result

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TREENODES>
   <treenode text="ItalyBook">
     <treenode text="USABook"/>
   </treenode>
   <treenode text="JapanBook"/>
   <treenode text="FranceBook"/>
</TREENODES>

I hope that is what you want, if not post back and tell us what the 
result document is supposed to look like.
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