Anthony,

thank you very much!
That does it...yuhuu :o)

@Martin
due to the large xsl and the rather small editor window for posting, one 
could simply copy and paste in a new file?!

Thanks and kisses,
  Mel

"AnthonyWJones" wrote:

> Here is a further mod which output the csv directly:-
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 	<xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
> 	<xsl:template match="/MatchDataset">
> 		<xsl:text>Block;Row;Category;SeatNo
> </xsl:text>
> 		<xsl:for-each select=".//SeatDataset">
> 			<xsl:value-of select="../../../Block" /><xsl:text>;</xsl:text>
> 			<xsl:value-of select="../../Category" /><xsl:text>;</xsl:text>
> 			<xsl:value-of select="../Row" /><xsl:text>;</xsl:text>
> 			<xsl:value-of select="SeatNo" /><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text>
> 		</xsl:for-each>
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> "Mel_la_Bel" wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I want to make a csv out of an xml file.
> > The XML file's structure is:
> > <MatchDataset>
> > <BlockDataset>
> >   <Block>A.3</Block>
> > <CategoryDataset>
> >   <Category>2</Category>
> > <RowDataset>
> >   <Row>26</Row>
> > <SeatDataset>
> >   <SeatNo>1</SeatNo>
> > </SeatDataset>
> > <SeatDataset>
> >   <SeatNo>2</SeatNo>
> > </SeatDataset>
> > <MatchDataset>
> > 
> > and I want to put it into a csv file:
> > Block;Row;Category;SeatNo
> > 
> > A block can have one or more row that can be of different categories and 
> > each row can have one or more seats.
> > 
> > I wrote an XSL file, but it gives me only one row in the csv file!!
> > Here is the code:
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
> > xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" exclude-result-prefixes="xs xsi">
> > 		<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" 
> > doctype-system="C:/DOKUME~1/tnuccio/EIGENE~1/test/result.dtd"/>
> > 		<xsl:template match="/MatchDataset">
> > 			<Eintrag>
> > 				<xsl:for-each select="BlockDataset">
> > 					<xsl:for-each select="Block">
> > 						<xsl:attribute name="block">
> > 							<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> > 						</xsl:attribute>
> > 					</xsl:for-each>
> > 				</xsl:for-each>
> > 				<xsl:for-each select="BlockDataset">
> > 					<xsl:for-each select="CategoryDataset">
> > 						<xsl:for-each select="Category">
> > 							<xsl:attribute name="kat">
> > 								<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> > 							</xsl:attribute>
> > 						</xsl:for-each>
> > 					</xsl:for-each>
> > 				</xsl:for-each>
> > 				<xsl:for-each select="BlockDataset">
> > 					<xsl:for-each select="CategoryDataset">
> > 						<xsl:for-each select="RowDataset">
> > 							<xsl:for-each select="Row">
> > 								<xsl:attribute name="row">
> > 									<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> > 								</xsl:attribute>
> > 							</xsl:for-each>
> > 						</xsl:for-each>
> > 					</xsl:for-each>
> > 				</xsl:for-each>
> > 				<xsl:for-each select="BlockDataset">
> > 					<xsl:for-each select="CategoryDataset">
> > 						<xsl:for-each select="RowDataset">
> > 							<xsl:for-each select="SeatDataset">
> > 								<xsl:for-each select="SeatNo">
> > 									<xsl:attribute name="seatno">
> > 										<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> > 									</xsl:attribute>
> > 								</xsl:for-each>
> > 							</xsl:for-each>
> > 						</xsl:for-each>
> > 					</xsl:for-each>
> > 				</xsl:for-each>
> > 			</Eintrag>
> > 		</xsl:template>
> > 	</xsl:stylesheet>
> > ---
> > 
> > Can anybody explain why onle one row is written?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> >   Mel