Gentlemen,

Thank you for your suggestions and I finally worked out the reason why the 2 values fishing, rabbit were not been picked up after debugging. It turned out that there are two different types of Hobbie(s) elements which is shown as follows:

The only difference between the 2 matching pattern elements is the additional letter 's'. I used the following matching patterns to pick up all values for both elements:

<xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbie:']|ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbies:']">

<xsl:for-each select="ns:a">

<hobbie><xsl:value-of select="."/></hobbie>

</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

Note that the matching name Hobbie is only an arbitray name that I used in position for the actual element name. As a result, it was not as obvious to distinguish between Hobby and Hobbies.

Now the only question left is the second half ( ii ) of the original post included below:

However, this syntax does not conform with XSLT stylesheet.

Any suggestion would be much appreciated.

Thanks again,

Jack