Two questions:

1) How do I grab the info in this XML file (below) and make them all into HTML A HREF links in XSL?

<navLinks>
        <link title="Home">index.html</link>
        <link title="View all our products">products.html</link>
        <link title="About our company">about.html</link>
        <link title="Contact Us">contact.html</link>
</navLinks>

This is what I had (and nothing showed):
        <xsl:for-each select="myPage/navLinks">
            <a href="test.html"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a>
        </xsl:for-each>

2) I have 6 paragraphs of text in an XML document that goes like this:

<data>
<item>Paragraph 1 ... </item>
<item>Paragraph 2 ... </item>
<item>Paragraph 3 ... </item>
<item>Paragraph 4 ... </item>
<item>Paragraph 5 ... </item>
<item>Paragraph 6 ... </item>
</data>

I tried to use this loop, but it only produced the first paragraph.

        <xsl:for-each select="//data">
            <p><xsl:value-of select="//item"/></p>
        </xsl:for-each>

Thanks for anyones assistance.

1. Replace

<xsl:for-each select="myPage/navLinks">
   <a href="test.html"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a>
</xsl:for-each>

by

<xsl:for-each select="myPage/navLinks/link">
   <a href="{@title}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></a>
</xsl:for-each>

(2) //item selects all the items in the document, and xsl:value-of displays the first thing selected. You want the child item of the current data element, which is just "data".

Both your mistakes suggest that you haven't grasped the concept of relative path expressions which select by navigating from the context node. It's worth doing some reading around this topic.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks mhkay for your help. I have been reading quite a bit on the subject, and even last night I went through two complete tutorials off of Macromedia site which led me in the wrong direction on X-paths. The example loop did not start with the actual child, the child was used within the for-each loop. Anyways, I adjusted mine and it worked fine.

However the advice which was given to grab links from this XML:

<navLinks>
<link title="Home">index.html</link>
<link title="View all our products">products.html</link>
</navLinks>

with this XSL code:

<xsl:for-each select="myPage/navLinks/link">
<a href="{@title}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></a><br/>
</xsl:for-each>

looks like this:

index.html
products.html
about.html
contact.html

and the links goes to the acutal "title". I have tried to reverse the actaul link with the title with no avail. Anyone has a suggestion ...

Yes, sorry, a simple error. But I'm surprised you couldn't see how to correct it. Change

<a href="{@title}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></a>

to

<a href="{.}"><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></a>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference