Hi Geert,

Thank you for your solutions. They are very insightful - I have
learned a couple of new ways of thinking, which is always good.

On your last remark:
>
> Just a last remark. It would be much easier to solve this problem if the
STRUC elements were nested
> as a tree. Something like:
<Snip/>

Yes, that would be very much the same as I would have said if someone
else had posted the same problem. Believe me when I say that this
cannot be done. I have shown only a sample of the XML pertaining to
the problem at hand. Thank you for the thought, though.

Regards,
Ragulf Pickaxe :-)