I have an xml that is a tree of various elements that repeat within each other i.e.

RF
-RU
--RSS
--RF
---RU
---RSS
... and so on

what I want to do is just get all the rss elements and their children, but there xpaths are different, and have not been able to find a generic one that will just give me all the RSS elements + the children regards of where it is in the xml. any one have any ideas

trying something like this, which does not work

<xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="RSS/RF">
           <xsl:copy>
           <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
           <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
           </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>


thanks for any help you might be able to offer.

Try:

<xsl:apply-templates select="//RSS"/>

Here is a good tutorial site:

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp

I also recommend
XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference, 3rd Edition
(http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...764569090.html)

and
XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference
http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...764569104.html