hi 
	if i understood well, the name of the tags are fixed(stock, symbol,
price) and what varies is the children of those tags.....
if it is so.. just write a stylesheet in which you do, for example
<xsl:template match="symbol">
	<xsl:value-of select="./text()" />
</xsl:template>
this will print whatever symbol you have, be it xyz, pqr or whatever...
apologies if the xsl is not right but i am writing in a hurry due to work
am i understanding right???
regards
	marco

PS apologies if the xsl is not right but i am writing in a hurry due to work
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EXT Ambarish Chaudhari [mailto:ambarish_c@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14. December 1999 9:15
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: dynamically reading tag-names in XSL 
> 
> 
> I am working on an XML that looks like:
> 
> <stocks>
>   <stock>
>     <symbol>xyz</symbol>
>     <price>123</price>
>   </stock>
>   <stock>
>     <symbol>abc</symbol>
>     <price>234</price>
>   </stock>
>   <stock>
>     <symbol>pqr</symbol>
>     <price>345</price>
>   </stock>
> </stocks>
> 
> I want to write an XSL for this which will read the tags and their
> value dynamically.
> Something like:
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:for-each select="stocks/stock">
>     <xsl:variable name="tagname" select="."/>
>     $tagname <xsl:text> = </xsl:text>
>     <xsl:value-of select="$tagname"><xsl:text> ; </xsl:text>
>   </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> to generate:
> 
>   symbol = xyz ; price = 123 ; symbol = abc ; price = 234
> 
> I know this is XSL wrong and not expceted to work! 
> But can anyone tell me what would work?
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