>I have a stylesheet...that isn't working....
>Is it considered "kosher" if I were to send the stylesheet and short
>version of the [XML] source to the list?  If so, would
>someone be willing to take a look and let me know what might be wrong?

Thanks for asking about procedure first. Step 1 is always to check the
written resources, both in book/magazine form and at helpful websites.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
is home to the XSL FAQ, for example. In the case of XPath expressions,
you could try one of the evaluators available. Xalan comes with an
example that is oriented toward trial-and-error evaluation of various
XPath expressions. A mailing list is not a good place for an extended
back-and-forth tutorial interchange.

If you are at a point where you have one well-focused question that
will solve your problem, then you can ask it on a mailing list. Even
then, the XSL-list hosted by Mulberry is better suited for generic
XSLT/XPath questions. You'll get a more useful response if you show
what you already grasp, for example: "I can see that [expr1] gets me
the right set of elements, but how do I get the set of @foo
attributes of those elements and then blah blah those attributes?"
Another popular way to do this is to describe 2-4 filtering
expressions and say why each one excludes desired nodes or includes
too many nodes.
.................David Marston


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