Hi,

I'm relatively new to XSLT and have the following problem...

My XML file has multiple nodes such as ...

...
<NAME>homer</NAME>
<NAME>marge</NAME>
<NAME>bart</NAME>
<NAME>lisa</NAME>
<NAME>maggie</NAME>
<TOWN>springfield</TOWN>
<STATE>unknown</STATE>
...

I'd like to concatentate the NAME tags and TOWN tag into one big string, equaling "homer marge bart lisa maggie springfield" and put that string into a new node in the xslt output. The question is...can this be done and HOW? I've found the concat() method, but can't seem to get the whole idea of a "variable to hold the string in process" to work.

Please help?!?!

In XSLT 2.0, when your context node is the parent of the nodes you have shown, <xsl:value-of select="*"/> does exactly what you want.

In 1.0, use

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

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

Awesome! Thank you for the quick reply.