Dear all,

	I am confused about XSLT again. I have the following XML codes:

	<TICKETS>
     	   <TICKET>
		<FEATURES>
		   <NUMBER>1</NUMBER>
		   <EXPIRE>2 May 2000</EXPIRE>
		</FEATURES>
		<CONDITION>valid</CONDITION>
	   </TICKET>
	
	   <TICKET>
		<FEATURES>
		   <NUMBER>2</NUMBER>
		   <EXPIRE>10 May 2000</EXPIRE>
		</FEATURES>
		<CONDITION>valid</CONDITION>
	   </TICKET>
	  
	   <TICKET>
		<FEATURES>
		   <NUMBER>5</NUMBER>
		   <EXPIRE>5 May 2000</EXPIRE>
		</FEATURES>
		<CONDITION>valid</CONDITION>
	   </TICKET>
	</TICKETS>
	
	Assume the ticket thing in the XML is lottery tickes.
	I have created an XSL file in order to:
	1. read in the today's date and compare to the <EXPIRE>
	   and set the <CONDITION>
	2. compare the <NUMBER> with the input winning number
	   and set the <CONDITION>
	and transform it into a new XML document, for example out.xml.
	(I am using LotusXSL and XML4J from alphaWorks of IBM)

	I have created the following XSL codes:
	
	...
	<xsl:param name="expire" />
	<xsl:param name="win" />

	<xsl:template name="readExp">
		<xsl:variable
name="expireDay" select="format-number(number(substring-before($expire,'
')),'00')" />
		<xsl:variable
name="expireMonth" select="document('')//fo:month[@name=substring-before(substring-after($expire,'
'),' ')]/@num" />
		<xsl:variable
name="expireYear" select="substring-after(substring-after($expire,' '),'
')" />
		<xsl:value-of
select="number(concat($expireYear,$expireMonth,$expireDay))" />
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="TICKETS">
		<xsl:element name="TICKETS">
			<xsl:apply-templates select="TICKET" />
		</xsl:element>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="FEATURES">
		<xsl:element name="FEATURES">
			<xsl:apply-templates select="NUMBER" />
			<xsl:apply-templates select="EXPIRE" />
		</xsl:element>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="CONDITION">
		...
	</xsl:template>

	At the CONDITION, when I tried this:

	<xsl:value-of select="//EXPIRE"	 />

	It only print out the first TICKET's EXPIRE value which is "2 May 
2000". Please help me. Even a small hint is much appreciated. Thousand
thanks.

Best regards,
Cheun Ngen CHONG



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