Hi,

Still trying to grasp xsl, and having a hard time understand how I can go through this build... Now I find the Attribute that I'm looking for by doing this:

<xsl:template match="/env">
   <xsl:for-each select="Attribute[Type='Email_Details']">
  ->> stuff goes here...
   <xsl:for-each select"
</xsl:template>

but how can I iterate through the 2 sub Attributes of Value, and display that information?

<env>
   <Attribute>
      <Type>Email_Details</Type>
         <Value>
            <Attribute>
               <Type>Account A</Type>
               <Value>
                  <Attribute>
                     <Type>UserName</Type>
                     <Value>user A</Value>
                  </Attribute>
                  <Attribute>
                     <Type>SMTPServer</Type>
                     <Value>server A</Value>
                  </Attribute>
               </Value>
            </Attribute>
            <Attribute>
               <Type>Account B</Type>
               <Value>
                  <Attribute>
                     <Type>UserName</Type>
                     <Value>user B</Value>
                  </Attribute>
                  <Attribute>
                     <Type>SMTPServer</Type>
                     <Value>server B</Value>
                  </Attribute>
               </Value>
            </Attribute>
     </Value>
   </Attribute>
</env>

Thank you in advance.

You haven't made it clear quite how flexible the input structure is, or what kind of output you want. I would personally be very inclined to start by transforming this to a more straightforward XML representation:

<env>
  <Email_Details>
    <Account code="A">
       <UserName>User A</UserName>
       <SMPTServer>Server A</SMTPServer>
    <Account>
    <Account code="B">
       <UserName>User B</UserName>
       <SMPTServer>Server B</SMTPServer>
    <Account>
  </Email_Details>
</env>

and then everything would start to seem much simpler.

However, whatever the output you're aiming for, recursive structures are best dealt with by a stylesheet that does recursive descent using apply-templates. Just write a rule for each kind of element, and in that rule do what you need to do with that element, then call apply-templates to process its children. I can't tell you what these rules should look like (or even how many there should be - it's not clear whether attributes at different levels are processed the same way) without knowing your desired output.

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