"tshad" <tshad@d...> wrote in message 
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>>> <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="/*">
>>>  <xsl:copy>
>>>   <xsl:apply-templates>
>>>    <xsl:sort select="form/@Major" order="descending"/>
>>>   </xsl:apply-templates>
>>>  </xsl:copy>
>>> </xsl:template>
>>> <xsl:template match="FIELDS">
>>>  <form>
>>>   <xsl:for-each select="child">
>>>    <sectionNumber>
>>>     <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::FORM/@SECCODE"/>
>>>    </sectionNumber>
>>>    <primary>
>>>     <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::FORM/@MAJOR"/>
>>>    </primary>
>>>    <formName>
>>>     <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::FORM/@FORMCODE"/>
>>>    </formName>
>>>    <tagName>
>>>     <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
>>>    </tagName>
>>>    <value>
>>>     <xsl:value-of select="*"/>
>>>    </value>
>>>   </xsl:for-each>
>>>  </form>
>>> </xsl:template>
>>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>>>

My mistake.  I was pointing at the old sheet and not my new changes.

This sheet works fine.

<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="/*">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates>
    <xsl:sort select="form/@Major" order="descending"/>
   </xsl:apply-templates>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="FIELDS">
  <form>
   <xsl:for-each select="*">
    <sectionNumber>
     <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::FORM/@SECCODE"/>
    </sectionNumber>
    <primary>
     <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::FORM/@MAJOR"/>
    </primary>
    <formName>
     <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::FORM/@FORMCODE"/>
    </formName>
    <tagName>
     <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
    </tagName>
    <value>
     <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
    </value>
   </xsl:for-each>
  </form>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

What is strange, as I mentioned before, was that the xmlns:xsi line is on 
the "form" tag and not the root tag.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FORMS>
  <form xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber>
    <primary>True</primary>
    <formName>1004</formName>
    <tagName>OTHERFILENUMBER</tagName>
    <value>692</value>
    <sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber>
    <primary>True</primary>
    <formName>1004</formName>
    <tagName>FNMA_FILENUMBER</tagName>
    <value>693</value>
    <sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber>
    <primary>True</primary>
    <formName>1004</formName>
    <tagName>SUBPROPADDRESS</tagName>
    <value>3</value>
  </form>
</FORMS>

If I chang the script from:

  <xsl:copy>

to

<FORMS>

Then it puts the xmlns:xsi line there.

Why is that?

As you say, I can put exclude-result-prefixes="xsi" in the xsl:stylesheet 
element and it disappears.  Is it something that should be there?

Thanks,

Tom