Thankx for the reply .

But i have to use xsl:key in the ffollowing ormat 
<xsl:key name="..."  match="..." use="..."/> 

And that will  look for matching text() in the node but not for matching nodes that can have any text ...
I am looking for matching nodes across xml that can have text ...

Thanks again 
-kumar


>>> michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx 05/01/02 12:06PM >>>
If you define 

<xsl:key match="agentname" ...>

then it will index <agentname> elements wherever they appear.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> NINGASHETTY
> Sent: 01 May 2002 15:09
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Subject: [xsl] apolying xsl:key to similar looking node names
> 
> 
> Hi Again ,
> 
> <data>
>     <companies>
>        <agent>
>             <agentname>AAA</agentname>
>        </agent>
>        <agent>
>            <agentname>BBB</agentname>
>                     <companies>
>                           <agent>
>                     	<agentname>CCC</agentname>
>                           </agent>
>                           <agent>
>  		<agentname>DDD</agentname>
> 	          </agent>
> 	   </companies>
>        </agent>
>     </companies>
> </data>
> 
> 
> I was wondering in the above xml is there a way to apply 
> xsl:keys for "same Nodenames" across whole xml ..IN
> this case it is <agentname> so that i can pull out data 
> across whole xml from the node <agentname> no matter 
> wherever  down the tree it may appear.
> 
> Thanks
> -kumar
> 
> 
> 
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