I am going to respond to this twice, only because I don't want to confuse 
the issue and I want to change example a little to explain my 2nd question 
on this.

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
news:u0qKeqZkIHA.5820@T......
> tshad wrote:
>
>> So the last form would look something like:
>>
>>  <form>
>>     <sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber>
>>     <primary>True</primary>
>>     <formName>1004</formName>
>>     <tagName>FormFormats</tagName>
>>     <flags>0</flags>
>>     <format>0</format>
>>     <value>NUM="1" FORMCODE="1004" SECCODE="1" DESC="" 
>> MAJOR="True"</value>
>>   </form>
>
> This adds an additional form element

Right.

That is what I am trying to do.  Get another form element where the 
important field would only be the <value> which gives me the all the 
attributes in the
>
> <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:if test="position() = last()">
>        <form>
>          <sectionNumber><xsl:value-of 
> select="../../@SECCODE"/></sectionNumber>
>          <primary>True</primary>
>          <formName><xsl:value-of select="../../@FORMCODE"/></formName>
>          <tagName>FormFormats</tagName>
>          <flags>0</flags>
>          <format>0</format>
>          <value>
>            <xsl:apply-templates select="../../@*"/>
>          </value>
>         </form>
>      </xsl:if>
>   </xsl:template>
>
>   <xsl:template match="FORM/@*">
>     <xsl:value-of select="concat(name(), '=', .)"/>
>     <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
>       <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>     </xsl:if>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>

Worked perfectly.

I am confused as to why it did, however.

In my file, I had:

      <xsl:apply-templates select="FORMS/FORM"/>

which doesn't work - doesn't seem to handle the "xsl:if test" so I don't get 
the extra form element.  But it works perfectly for the other 3.  It 
displayes the 3 form elements just not the extra one inside the test.

You changed it to:

      <xsl:apply-templates select="FORMS/FORM/FIELDS/*"/>

and it handles it fine.  I thought that "FORMS/FORM" would handle all the 
child elements.  Why do I need the /FIELDS/* ?

Also,

Yours indents perfectly:

mine just appends each tag one after another.  Yet I also have the 
"indent=yes" in my xsl:output.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<REPORT>

    <form><sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber><primary>True</primary><formName>1004</formName><tagName>OTHERFILENUMBER</tagName><flags>0</flags><format>0</format><value>692</value></form>
    <form><sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber><primary>True</primary><formName>1004</formName><tagName>FNMA_FILENUMBER</tagName><flags>0</flags><format>0</format><value>693</value></form>
    <form><sectionNumber>1</sectionNumber><primary>True</primary><formName>1004</formName><tagName>SUBPROPADDRESS</tagName><flags>0</flags><format>0</format><value>3</value></form>

  </REPORT>

why is that?

This last question is similar to the one I am going to ask with a more 
expanded example:

In this sample, we have 2 templates and 2 apply-templates.

When we say:

<xsl:apply-templates select="FORMS/FORM/FIELDS/*"/>

How does it know to use the 1st template?

And how does:

 <xsl:apply-templates select="../../@*"/>

know to use the last template since there are no template names or ids?

Thanks,

Tom
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/