That did it, but now I need to use that number to get a field from a 
previous set of nodes, but the select is not working.

If I make the following changes the XML looks like:

    <FORM>
        <FIELDS>
            <TITLE1>This is Title1</TITLE1>
            <TITLE2>This is Title2</TITLE2>
            <TITLE3>This is Title3</TITLE3>
        </FIELDS>
        <FORMPHOTOS>
            <PHOTO NUM="1">
                <FILENAME>09May001.jpg</FILENAME>
                <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
            </PHOTO>
            <PHOTO NUM="2">
                <FILENAME>09005.jpg</FILENAME>
                <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
            </PHOTO>
            <PHOTO NUM="3">
                <FILENAME>09002.jpg</FILENAME>
                <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
            </PHOTO>
        </FORMPHOTOS>
    </FORM>

I am doing:

 <xsl:template match="FORMPHOTOS/PHOTO">
  <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test=". != ''">
    <attachment>
     <source>
      <xsl:value-of select="../../FIELDS/*[name() = concat('TITLE',@NUM)]"/>
     </source>
    </attachment>
   </xsl:when>
  </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>

This gives me blanks.

The concat works fine and comes back with TITLE1, TITLE2 or TITLE3.

And if I change the line to:

      <xsl:value-of select="../../FIELDS/TITLE1"/>

So I assume the FIELDS/* is wrong.

What would I put there instead?

Thanks,

Tom

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> tshad wrote:
>> "Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
>> news:%23AP5tGbFKHA.3816@T......
>>> tshad wrote:
>>>> Here is part of my xml:
>>>>
>>>>       <FORMPHOTOS>
>>>>         <PHOTO NUM="1">
>>>>           <FILENAME>09May001.jpg</FILENAME>
>>>>           <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
>>>>         </PHOTO>
>>>>         <PHOTO NUM="2">
>>>>           <FILENAME>09005.jpg</FILENAME>
>>>>           <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
>>>>         </PHOTO>
>>>>         <PHOTO NUM="3">
>>>>           <FILENAME>09002.jpg</FILENAME>
>>>>           <FILETYPE>JPEG</FILETYPE>
>>>>         </PHOTO>
>>>>       </FORMPHOTOS>
>>>>
>>>> In my xsl sheet I am doing:
>>>>
>>>>  <xsl:template match="FORMPHOTOS/PHOTO">
>>>>       <xsl:value-of select="../PHOTO/@NUM"/>
>>>
>>>> In my source tag I am actually doing a little more but I am trying to 
>>>> get the value of @NUM from the immediately preceding node.
>>>         <xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::PHOTO[1]/@NUM"/>
>>
>> Almost worked, but not quite.
>>
>> It seems to go back 2.
>>
>> The results I got for my xml were:
>>
>> 09May001.jpg    ->    blank
>> 09005.jpg          ->   1
>> 09002.jpg         ->   2
>
> Then your subject of "previous node" confused me.
> If you simply want to output the 'NUM' attribute of the context node then 
> within
>   <xsl:template match="FORMPHOTOS/PHOTO">
> you simply need
>      <xsl:value-of select="@NUM"/>
>
> -- 
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/