On 3/4/06, geoff hopkins <geoffhopkins123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> thank you I will stay away from those nasty keys...
> for now.....can you explain what the ../a does?

Keys aren't nasty... just not meant for what you were trying to do...

../ is shorthand for parent::* so it selects the parent node

../a selects all <a> children of the parent