ok, so briefly put, i am XMLing my music list, as just sort of a fun/intro to xml thing

but am running across a few issues

say that i have a split record.. the way i have that defined now in my XML is simply an elemnt with two <ARTIST> fields. how can i code my XSLT to pull them, seperated like ARTIST1/ARTIST2/ETC if more than one exist...

and i have a similar issue with various other fiends in my object.. but if i can figure it out once i should be able to figure it out for them all

thanks

If you want an answer, the golden rules are:

1. Simplify your problem to the essentials
2. Describe it clearly, by means of input and required output
3. Explain how far you've got and where you hit difficulties

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

okkkkk

1. does xml straight up allow two duplicate fields with the same name within one element

an example would be this
    <EP>
        <ARTIST>d'amore</ARTIST>
        <ARTIST>towers</ARTIST>
        <COLOR>pink</COLOR>
        <LABEL>delian league</LABEL>
        <YEAR>2005</YEAR>
    </EP>


and then if it does

2. how can i write XSL code which retrieves all fields with a given name from the element in succession.. in the above case, all of the <ARTIST> fields, seperating them with some kind of character, say "/" between each

There's no such thing as a "field" in XML. If you mean elements the answer is yes (duplicates are allowed). If you mean attributes then the answer is no.

<xsl:for-each select="xxx">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  <xsl:if test="position()!=last()">/</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

Or in XSLT 2.0, use the string-join function.

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

yeah i was afraid i was using wrong terminology

xml is a new beast to me

thanks for the help