tshad wrote:

> When you say current node, are you talking about everything inside the PHOTO 
> tags?

Tags are part of the markup that the XML parser deals with. XSLT 
operates on a tree of nodes. Within
   <xsl:template match="FORMPHOTOS/PHOTO">
the current node is a element node with name 'PHOTO'.

> Or FORMPHOTOS as well.  In otherword, if I change the FORMPHOTOS element to:
> 
> <FORMPHOTOS LABEL="HOUSE">
> 
> Could I have also accessed the LABEL as:
> 
>    <source>
>      <xsl:value-of select="@HOUSE"/>

That does not make much sense. The attribute name is 'LABEL', not 
'HOUSE'. And the FORMPHOTOS element is the parent element of the PHOTO 
element(s) so inside of
   <xsl:template match="FORMPHOTOS/PHOTO">
to access the LABEL attribute of the FORMPHOTOS element you need to use
       <xsl:value-of select="../@LABEL"/>

> When you say that "Inside of the square brackets the context node is no 
> longer the PHOTO element but rather that * child element", what is the * 
> child element refering to?

* is a wildcard. You had ../../FIELDS/* and then added a predicate so 
that predicate applies to any child element of the FIELDS element(s).

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