Hi,
I have the xml :

<richtext xmlns:dxl="http://www.lotus.com/dxl">
  <pardef id="2" align="full" leftmargin="1in" rightmargin="100%" keeptogether="true" />
  <par def="2">The Company announcement released today </par>
  <par def="3" />
  <par def="3" />
  <par def="3">By Order of the Board</par>
  <par def="3" />
  <par def="3" />
  <par def="3">LAM DING LING</par>
  <par def="3">Company Secretary</par>
  <par def="3" />
  <par def="3">Singapore </par>
  <par def="3">25 September 1997</par>
</richtext>

i need to create an xsl for the same.

how to loop and get the values for par def="3",i tried this way

<xsl:for-each select="richtext/par[@def='3']">
  <xsl:value-of select="richtext/par"/>
</xsl:for-each>

but i didnt get any result..
 thnx in adv...

Try this:

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

    <xsl:template match="par">
        <xsl:value-of select=".[@def = 3]"></xsl:value-of>
    </xsl:template>

or try like your way:

 <xsl:template match="par">
        <xsl:for-each select=".[@def='3']">
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        </xsl:for-each>

    </xsl:template>

A relative path expression like richtext/par selects downwards from the current node. The current node is the one that the for-each is currently processing. That's a <par> element, and there aren't any richtext elements as children of a <par>, so it selects nothing.

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

Thanks alot for the replies

<xsl:for-each select="richtext/par">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="." /></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>

i have done this way and getting everything which is independent of 'def' as mentioned in example...