Hello,
Firstly I am very new to XSLT so sorry if this is really simple.
I have the following xml file

<cruise>
   <properties>
       <membmer>
              blah
       <membmer>
       <membmer>
               blah
       <membmer>
   <properites>
   <build>
         <message>blah1 <message>
         <message>blah2 <message>
         <message>blah5 <message>
         <message>blah2 <message>
         <message>blah3 <message>
         <message>blah1 <message>
         <message>blah1 <message>
    <build>
<cruise>

Now I need to write some xslt which loops thorugh all elements in message and outputs those that have a 1 in them. Therefore the are 7 messages and ideally I want only 3 to be shown.
I have messed around all afternoon trying to get this done. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
Richard

Here you go

<xsl:for-each select="message[contains(.,'1')]">
   <xsl:value-of select="." /><br/>
</xsl:for-each>

Regards

Bryan

Thanks for teh reply Bryan, but it doesnt work.
Do I not need to specify where <messages> is?

Thanks
Richard

Don't think in terms of looping, xslt is not a procedural language.

Write one template rule for messages containing a 1:

<xsl:template match="message[contains(.,'1')]">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:message>

and another rule (that does nothing) for the rest:

<xsl:template match="message"/>



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

I was assuming you were in the "build" context.

Here is the full stylesheet
By the way, your sample xml is not at all well formed...

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">


  <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="cruise/build/message" />
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="message[contains(.,'1')]">
    <xsl:value-of select="." /><br/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="message" />

</xsl:stylesheet>

Bryan

Thanks a lot for your help guys. Am very impressed with response time!

Out of interest if the XML was :

<cruise>
   <properties>
       <membmer>
              blah
       </membmer>
       </membmer>
               blah
       </membmer>
   </properites>
   <build>
         <message>blah1 </message>
         <message>blah2 </message>
         <message>blah5 </message>
         <message>blah2 </message>
         <message>blah3 </message>
         <message>blah1 </message>
         <message>blah1 </message>

         <build2>
             <message>blah1 </message>
             <message>blah8 </message>
         </build2>

    </build>
</cruise>

and I want to look in messages for blah1 in both <build> and <build2> how do I do this?

I have seen the // tag around which seems to be used to search tags and there inner tags.

Am I going along the correct lines?

Thanks again

Richard

Hiya
i have solved the problem of looking in inner tags by having

<xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="cruise/build/*" />
  </xsl:template>

instead of

<xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="cruise/build/message" />
  </xsl:template>

Thanks for your help
Richard