Simple Newby XPath Question

[Bruce L. (c) <bl...@sa...>]

Hi All,

How do I match the second teir elements but not their children:

<?xml...?>
	<news_detail>
		<author>
			<author_name>
				<first_name></first_name>
				<middle_initial></middle_initial>
				<last_name></last_name>
			</author_name>
		</author>
	</news_detail>

I have been using 

	<xsl:template match="news_detail/*" name="news_detail">
		.
		.
		.
	</xsl:template>

and calling it thus:
			.
			.
			.
			<xsl:apply-templates select="//*/*"/> <!-- for
another template -->
			<xsl:apply-templates select="news_detail"/>
			.
			.
			.

The problem is that I get the author_name node and the first_name, last_name
and middle_initial child nodes. I only want the node list to include the
<author> tag.

 <item delimiter="," name="author_name"/>
  <item delimiter="," name="first_name"/>
  <item delimiter="," name="middle_initial"/> <!-- I DONT WANT THESE IN THE
OUTPUT -->

What XPath expression do I need to use ?
Also - even though I am calling the two templates explicitly using select,
does the pattern from the first template still carry over ? Why ? How do I
stop this?

Thanks Heaps,

Bruce.

Bruce Long (c)
Sapient | Architects for the New Economy
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