[ Deepak Rao]

> The following is the XML I want to transform. Can anyone help 
> me out in 
> writing a statement which access only the LOOP2 section and 
> its children of 
> the first LOOP1 section. 

There are two LOOP2 elements in the first LOOP1.  I assume you want to
access both of them.

> I want to ingnore the rest of the 
> LOOP1 sections 
> and its children. I want to use a for-each (if possible)

Why are you trying to use a for-each?  I would write (I have renamed the
top-level element to "root" since the name "XML" is a reserved name and
you should not use it) -

<xsl:template select='/root/LOOP1[1]'>
	<xsl:apply-templates select='LOOP2'/>
</xsl:template>

> 
> <XML>
>    <ABC>2323</ABC>
>    <LOOP1>
>       <XYZ>232</XYZ>
>       <ERT>5465</ERT>
>       <LOOP2>
>          <DFG>345</DFG>
>          <CVB>675</CVB>
>       </LOOP2>

<snip/>

Cheers,

Tom P

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