"tshad" <tshad@d...> wrote in message 
news:#lJnknRkIHA.4120@T......
> That worked really well.
>
> Why did you do the:
>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="FORMS/FORM/FIELDS/*"/>
>
> And then the:
>
>   <xsl:template match="FIELDS/*">
>
> Doesn't the select already get a node set that is already just the nodes 
> below the FIELDS tag?
>
> IF that was the case (which it may not be), couldn't you just have done:
>
>   <xsl:template match="*">
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
> "Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
> news:%230kiCFPkIHA.4480@T......
>> tshad wrote:
>>> If I have the following xml:
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>> <REPORT VERSION="1.10" FILENUM="" DESCRIPTION="Form Utility XML: 
>>> 3/18/2008 12:27:13 PM" MAJORFORM="1004">
>>>   <ORDER></ORDER>
>>>   <TRACKING></TRACKING>
>>>   <FORMS>
>>>     <FORM NUM="1" FORMCODE="1004" SECCODE="1" DESC="" MAJOR="True" >
>>>       <FIELDS>
>>>         <OTHERFILENUMBER>692</OTHERFILENUMBER>
>>>         <FNMA_FILENUMBER>693</FNMA_FILENUMBER>
>>>         <SUBPROPADDRESS>3</SUBPROPADDRESS>
>>>       </FIELDS>
>>>       <FORMPHOTOS></FORMPHOTOS>
>>>       <ATTACHMENTS></ATTACHMENTS>
>>>     </FORM>
>>>   </FORMS>
>>> </REPORT>
>>>
>>> I have can have about 200 nodes under the <FIELDS> node.
>>>
>>> Each node has it's own name.
>>>
>>> What I am looking for is to build an style sheet that loops through the 
>>> children and creates a set of nodes that would look something like:
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>> <REPORT>
>>>    <form>
>>>       <sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber>
>>>       <primary>True</primary>
>>>       <formName>1004</formName>
>>>       <tagName>OTHERFILENUMBER</tagName>
>>>       <value>692</value>
>>>    <form>
>>>    <form>
>>>       <sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber>
>>>       <primary>True</primary>
>>>       <formName>1004</formName>
>>>       <tagName>FNMA_FILENUMBER</tagName>
>>>       <value>693</value>
>>>    <form>
>>>    <form>
>>>       <sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber>
>>>       <primary>True</primary>
>>>       <formName>1004</formName>
>>>       <tagName>SUBPROPADDRESS</tagName>
>>>       <value>SUBPROPADDRESS</value>
>>>    <form>
>>> </REPORT>
>>
>> Here is a stylesheet that performs the transformation:
>>
>> <xsl:stylesheet
>>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>>   version="1.0">
>>
>>   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>>
>>   <xsl:template match="REPORT">
>>     <xsl:copy>
>>       <xsl:apply-templates select="FORMS/FORM/FIELDS/*"/>
>>     </xsl:copy>
>>   </xsl:template>
>>
>>   <xsl:template match="FIELDS/*">
>>     <form>
>>       <sectionNumber><xsl:value-of 
>> select="../../@SECCODE"/></sectionNumber>
>>       <primary>True</primary>
>>       <formName><xsl:value-of select="../../@FORMCODE"/></formName>
>>       <tagName><xsl:value-of select="name()"/></tagName>
>>       <value><xsl:value-of select="."/></value>
>>     </form>
>>   </xsl:template>
>>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
>> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
>
>
Ignore my previous answer, I misread your question. The match needs to be 
FIELDS/* so that it matches solely children of the FIELDS element, * alone 
would match any element.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name